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Message-ID: <02c601c3eb57$d22f6770$1214dd80@corp.emc.com>
From: exibar at thelair.com (Exibar)
Subject: Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun

Not really a hack but it was fun:

    Back in HighSchool, sophomore year I think, 1984, our HighSchool had a
PDP-10 for Pascal, Fortran, Basic, and cobol classes.  This was the first
year that computer programming was offered if I remember correctly.  Well, I
wrote an infinate loop in Fortran (accidentally, really!), well guess what I
did, I caused the first DoS.  That infinite loop simply sucked up all the
cycles that poor hunk of iron could give it and wouldn't allow anyone to do
anything.  Of course, my terminal was able to anything I wanted, as long as
it was terminating the program ;-)

  After I discovered what I unintentionally did, and both programming
teachers were done pulling out their hair, I quietly kept my little infinite
loop in the back of my head for future use.  I don't think I ever used it
again though....  really!  probably because they knew that I knew how to do
it and I'd be blames straight away for any "lock-ups" of the system :-)


 You guys decide if it was a hack or not, not even in the 60's or 70's but
mid 80's, It really was unintentional but I look back at it and smile :-)

Exibar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clairmont, Jan" <JMC13@...l3.cs.state.ny.us>
To: "'Gary E. Miller'" <gem@...lim.com>
Cc: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun


>
> That's the spirit, just curious.  I teach and it is fun to have
> material to relieve the boredom.
>
> Hopefully, the statute of limitations has run out on us all 8->
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary E. Miller [mailto:gem@...lim.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:37 PM
> To: Clairmont, Jan
> Subject: RE:[Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun
>
>
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> Yo Jan!
>
> I got to Brown University in 1971.  By then there were already many tales
of
> people hacking the university mainframe in the lat '60s.
>
> So you are going to have to go WAY back.
>
> My HS had a Model 33 teletype that we could use to dial to a local
> university mainframe.  In 1968 I tricked a GE time share guy giving demos
at
> a mall to show me his dial-in number, username and password. With that we
> ran up the HS long distance bill for months playing with the fancy GE
> mainframe.
>
> RGDS
> GARY
> -
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701
> gem@...lim.com  Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Clairmont, Jan wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:58:36 -0500
> > From: "Clairmont, Jan" <JMC13@...l3.cs.state.ny.us>
> > To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> > Subject: RE:[Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun
> >
> > For all you oldies and newbies anyone know of an
> > older student or other hack?  Back in Sept. 1970
> > we as Waukesha HS students got in a teletype, modem and
> > had access to BASIC, I mean BASIC.  We were allowed
> > 2 hours computer time. And of course one of us
> > "wise group of birds" David Ferrie, found out how to change the system
> > time, so we could program all day.
> >
> > Anyone know of an older hack, just for the Guiness Book
> > of Records?
> >
> > TIME$ A$=TIME$
> >
> > Jan Clairmont
> > LDAP and Solaris Admin. Consultant and anything else I can Get my
> > Hands On.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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