Date   : Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:05:36 +0100
From   : "Chris Priest" <chris.priest@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro amusing stories

When I was at school, I remember on the last day, going into the IT
department, and doing a *UNPLUG on all the Master Roms, reset the machine
and used to leave just a flashing cursor in the top left, it drove the IT
Head mad for days as he couldn't figure out how to re-instate the beebs :D

In the end, I had to go back and sort them out, but as I'd technically left
school, they didn't really do much, got an earful from the IT Head tho :)

Ahhh, those were the days......

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf Of
Littlefield Aaron
Sent: 09 June 2005 10:33
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: [BBC-Micro] BBC Micro amusing stories

Hi,

Does anybody here have any amusing stories about BBC usage? I might be
putting a website together at some point in the future and I think it would
be interesting to read.

I don't have any tales of blowing up BBC's or amusing accidents
unfortunately, other than getting up to mischief during wet breaks at school
and writing betting programs! Although there was that time back in the 80's
when I submitted some work which was supposedly a 'storage database full of
information' and it was only a View file (!), thankfully the teachers were a
bit computer-challenged back then. ;)

Aaron


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