Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

> On Jan 17, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >>> I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch. >>> An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his >>> punchcard based utility bills. (those characters have special meaning >>>

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch. An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his punchcard based utility bills.   (those characters have special meaning to 360 JCL.  They have multiple punches per column, so it required making a punch, then backspacing to make

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

On 01/17/2018 01:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> We might as well all contribute. >> Back in college in 1969 > > I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch. > An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his > punchcard based utility bills.   (those characters have

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

We might as well all contribute. Back in college in 1969 I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch. An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his punchcard based utility bills. (those characters have special meaning to 360 JCL. They have multiple punches per

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, David C. Jenner via cctalk wrote: This isn't malware, but back in 1962 when I was taking a college class in assembly language programming for the IBM 709, my innocence led to the following. We might as well all contribute. Back in college in 1969 we would submit our

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

On 1/16/18 4:27 PM, Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: > Enjoying the virus/malware history as its always interesting to see > what people thought. Tricks, boredom, etc cause interesting results. > For punch cards i thought someone was going to mention punching all > the holes and jamming the reader.

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

This isn't malware, but back in 1962 when I was taking a college class in assembly language programming for the IBM 709, my innocence led to the following. Of course, I had, on the typewriter, for my high school years, always typed ' backspace . to get an exclamation point. I did this in a

Re: Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Sam O'nella via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Enjoying the virus/malware history as its always interesting to see what > people thought. Tricks, boredom, etc cause interesting results. > For punch cards i thought someone was going to mention punching

Malware history was: Spectre & Meltdown

Enjoying the virus/malware history as its always interesting to see what people thought. Tricks, boredom, etc cause interesting results. For punch cards i thought someone was going to mention punching all the holes and jamming the reader. I'm not sure if thats real but heard some folks had to