Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!ssd From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Summary: More devious messages Message-ID: <2703@sugar.uu.net> Date: 29 Sep 88 06:08:40 GMT References: <1109@idec.stc.co.uk> <1860004@otter.hple.hp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 18 In article <1860004@otter.hple.hp.com>, gjh@otter.hple.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: > .....Some joker down in the computer room had used the > messaging facility to write on the 25th line the following message ... > > > "WARNING! Temperature overload! This terminal will explode in 30 seconds!" > We had a long string of console message jokers, ranging from some very much like that to my personal favorite, which was an OS/MVT operator action message that said something like: 02 TRAIN GOING BY OUTSIDE; PLEASE REPLY "F" IF FREIGHT OR "P" IF PASSENGER. (this of course done at the "system critical action required" level!) The same joker later figured out where to hook into the output spooler (HASP) to insert his own printer commands at will; he then proceeded to make regular use of the "raise cover" CCW on the 3211 printer.