On Mon, 22 May 2000, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
> Back in the 70's when I was in college (WPI), our computer center used
> a bunch of HZ2000s at the center itself. (our system at the time was a
> KA based PDP-10). An oddity of the TOPS10 monitor (or at least the
> version that we were running) was that it let people send messages
> between terminals even if no one was logged in. One of my friends
> figured out that if you opened an unassigned terminal in the computer
> center (usually after hours)from a remote campus site, you could
> dump a series of commands (usually including "send" commands :-) to
> the HZ2000, terminated with a "send screen" command sequence.
> This let you send messages that looked as if they originated from
> the center to another remote terminal.(Heck, we were just college
> kids, and it was an innocuous bug. Boy, I miss those days :-).
I remember way back in 1990 one of my friends found the codes that allowed
one to effectively "remotely control" the Wyse 50 terminals in our HP-UX
lab. We had a lot of fun creating "terminal chains" where we would have
one terminal, controlling another terminal, controlling another terminal,
which was logged in to the server.
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Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 12:38:23 BST