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(Unverified)Feb 6th 2008 4:08AM

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This reminds me of a prank I did in the mid 80s when I was working for a large blue mainframe company. We switched certain keytops on a colleagues keyboard. He typed his login details, using the hunt and peck method, and when he eventually looked at the screen there was a very rude message instead of the expected user details. Much head scratching!
Another time, when hardware/firmware engineers responsible for terminal development visited, we generated an upside down character set (generating symbol/character sets was new stuff at the time). Had then foxed for quite a while.

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