At 13:06 -0400 on 05/21/2008, Richards, Robert B. wrote about Re:
Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers:
Ask the person that was the object of the joke if they thought it was
funny. Hey, I like a good joke as much as the next person, but these did
not hit my funny bone for some reason.
Bob
This reminds me of a joke pulled on a fellow student (whose last name
happened to be Phelps) a large number of years ago. We had a time
sharing system (with a tractor paper feed terminal) where you were
allow a designated amount of computer time a week. One day his
account was set to start outputting a "Mission Impossible" briefing
starting "Good Morning Mr. Phelps" when he logged on and the ability
to interrupt the session was disabled. The Briefing ended with the
statement "IN 5 SECONDS YOUR TIME FOR THE WEEK WILL SELF-DESTRUCT"
and it started to page eject advance the paper typing the 5-4-3-2-1
count down and then logging him off. Until his account was reset his
remaining time was 0 minutes.
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