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If Looks Could Kill

634 点作者 erickhill超过 3 年前

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anonymousiam超过 3 年前
I remember walking around a trade show in the early 80's and doing something similar. It was a "HP Microwave Symposium" and aside from lots of good talks and papers, the exhibit hall had lots of high dollar HP (later Agilent/Keysight) RF test equipment. One of the items on display was a HP8566 spectrum analyzer which had a (primitive by today's standards, but) "smart" display capable of drawing vector graphics, time-linear graphs, and text. After using one on my own for a while, I had become curious about the display so I had learned everything that I could about it. So down on the exhibit hall floor, I walked up to the instrument while the sales guy was proclaiming how great it was (which was true) and I entered eight lines of code (about 30 keystrokes). Then I pressed the button to view trace C (which most people still don't know about) and up popped a rolling blinking text display of my name. Most of the people nearby were impressed, but since the instrument was no longer displaying the RF spectrum that the sales guy was talking about, he said; "I know how to fix that." Then he walked over and pressed the green "Instrument Preset" button, which the HP documentation said would always restore the instrument to a known starting point. When the display did not change, the sales guy yelled at me; "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?" (My program was in Trace C of display memory, which is not initialized by the Instrument Preset function.) So after watching him panic for a moment, I walked over and swapped traces B&C (shift-key followed by the swap A&B button). Now my program was in trace B (and blanked) so the screen returned to normal. Everyone was relieved! So just before walking away, I swapped my program back into trace C, viewed trace C, and hit the green preset button again. As I walked to the next exhibit, I saw him cycle the AC power to the instrument in frustration.
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spicybright超过 3 年前
Ha! Reminds me of the recently posted &quot;Stolen from Apple&quot; feature on the original macintosh.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;StoryView.py?story=Stolen_From_Apple.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;StoryView.py?story=Stolen_From_Appl...</a>
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willcipriano超过 3 年前
&gt; it really was a bug that could cause code not to work if a programmer really wanted to execute WAIT 6502!<p>Imagine running into that problem during that era. No stack overflow, no Google. Just &quot;MICROSOFT!&quot; and confusion.
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marcan_42超过 3 年前
Michael Steil at pagetable.com wrote an article about how this easter egg was done across different versions of Microsoft BASIC.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagetable.com&#x2F;?p=43" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pagetable.com&#x2F;?p=43</a><p>Bill Gates showed up in the comments :-)
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mark-r超过 3 年前
Bill Gates prided himself on being the smartest person in the room. He was probably over the top mad at being shown up. If he could have gotten away with killing at that moment, he would have.
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khazhoux超过 3 年前
Somehow, I never knew that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore (and I had both a C64 and an Amiga) was an Auschwitz survivor. And now I just lost the last 40 minutes walking through Auschwitz I and II on Google Street View... :-\
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gigel82超过 3 年前
Dave Plummer posted about this a week ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA</a> (it&#x27;s an interesting channel to follow from an old timer Microsoftie)
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myrandomcomment超过 3 年前
Dave Plummer...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_Plummer_(programmer)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;David_Plummer_(programmer)</a><p>...on this exact topic including a follow up where Bill answers his email about it.<p>Story:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HsNbH_ohKxA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;HsNbH_ohKxA</a><p>Answer from Bill Gates on it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VjPAfdkBprk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VjPAfdkBprk</a>
Terry_Roll超过 3 年前
In the early days of windows, many computer stores would have windows running on various pc&#x27;s with little or not security, so it was very quick and easy to edit the win.ini &quot;run=win.exe&quot; line to just &quot;run=&quot;. As soon as the computer was rebooted, it messed up and unless you knew how simple it was to restore windows, it would force the shop into reinstalling windows again.
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sitkack超过 3 年前
That is phenomenal that he is blogging, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arcadeattack.co.uk&#x2F;leonard-tramiel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arcadeattack.co.uk&#x2F;leonard-tramiel&#x2F;</a><p>Thank you Leonard!
atulatul超过 3 年前
This reminds me of Joel&#x27;s My First BillG Review <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;my-first-billg-review&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2006&#x2F;06&#x2F;16&#x2F;my-first-billg-rev...</a>
bobsmooth超过 3 年前
David Plummer has a YouTube channel where he covers this Easter Egg.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA</a>
awakeasleep超过 3 年前
I hope this becomes a standard part of the “no easter eggs in cURL?!” discourse that makes such frequent appearances on this site. If we must keep discussing it.
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josephcsible超过 3 年前
Was there ever a legitimate use case for NOLIST, or was it only useful for hiding what a computer is doing from its owner?
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CoastalCoder超过 3 年前
I may be misinterpreting the story, but did Gates basically sabotage the computer (temporarily) of a trade show attendee?
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rukshn超过 3 年前
Related video with more details by ex MS systems engineer <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=HsNbH_ohKxA</a>
noduerme超过 3 年前
Has anyone tried this in BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 100? That&#x27;s the machine I learned to code on as a kid and allegedly the last one Gates himself wrote the kernel for...
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gingeralgo超过 3 年前
Dude. At that point you are emboldened by the Fates to say, “Bond—Janes Bond.”
_pmf_超过 3 年前
Trade shows are a particular kind of crazy.
pm90超过 3 年前
Perhaps unpopular opinion: I find Gates&#x27; need to show off in this particular manner, and his reaction to it not going as expected, to be in really poor taste, even if the author themselves seem to have not minded it.<p>There were so many ways in which this interaction could have gone. He could have a side chat with the author, talked about other instances where this <i>did</i> work etc. But no, he had to try to assert dominance in this really weird way, and when it didn&#x27;t work, it made him mad.
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