full-disclosure - Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun

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From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun

<snip>

> Anyone know of an older hack, just for the Guiness Book
> of Records?
>
> TIME$ A$=TIME$

I once read that Ada Lovelace was fond of spilling a little cod-liver oil onto the bearings of one of the wheels in Babbage's engine.  The mechanism would "slip" a little, from time-to-time, resulting in a VERY perplexed expression on the good Doctors' otherwise taciturn demeanor.  This playful computing prank predates "rsh <hostname> 'xhost+ ; xroach'" by about 120 years.

Dorothy Stein. /Ada: A Life and A Legacy./ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) 

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