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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Funny Computer Crime Story.
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 13:53:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 13:53:00 1984
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> Twenty-six students, used their university's IBM 370/158 computer to print
> out 1.2 million 3-by-5 forms with their names and address -- enough paper
> to cover two and a half football fields.  They used these forms to enter a
> contest held by McDonald's restaurants that offered $40,000 in prizes...

Lest True History be  forgotten,  the name of the  "university"  was the
California Institute of Technology.  The students did what they did as a
prank, in the best Caltech tradition, about which you could write a book
(in fact, someone did just that).

And the real joke?  The computer  was used as nothing  more than a fancy
printer.  Turns out they  could  have done the same  thing  cheaper  and
faster by going to a local print shop.

Alan (I was there) Silverstein
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