Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!ukc!sys.uea!cmp8118 From: cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (D.S. Cartwright) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: BBC micro Message-ID: <1063@sys.uea.ac.uk> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:55:38 GMT References: <1499@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK Lines: 23 jleitch@cs.strath.ac.uk (James T Leitch CS88) writes: >Talking of hidden messages, on a BBC micro, if you typed : > RENUMBER 10,2345 >it came back with the message : > silly >This was the only thing you could do that would give this message. Yes. And Amcom (who produced a rather natty little Network Operating System for the Beeb that knocked the spots off Acorn's Econet) put in an early version of their E-Net NFS workstation ROM a message that appeared if you tried to do something to someone else' files: naughty. May I also briefly note that if you put a DFS 0.90 ROM the wrong way round in a Beeb Micro then turn the power on, it is possible to get a loud pop as the quartz window out of the top of the EPROM flies vertically upwards. I've seen it done, it's ever so pretty (but it does leave rather a pong of burning chip in the room ...) . Dave C, UEA, Norwich.