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From: vanpelt@unisv.SV.UNISYS.COM (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <625@unisv.SV.UNISYS.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 88 06:19:01 GMT
References: <1109@idec.stc.co.uk> <1860004@otter.hple.hp.com> <2135@stpstn.UUCP>
Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.sv.unisys.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Unisys, Silicon Valley
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In article <2135@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>I once had a user who had spend half an hour or so typing in a paper.
>TO ROM BASIC (on a pc).  The "Syntax Error" messages (or whatever) after
>every line didn't seem to matter to him.

That's like one of the CS 101 students on the Univac 1110 at the
University of Alabama.  He apparantly mistyped his @RUN statement
and it was rejected.  He then keyed in his entire BASIC program,
ignoring the *NO RUN ACTIVE* message the system typed after each
line.  Until...

>run
*NO RUN ACTIVE*
>list
*NO RUN ACTIVE*
>save "lab-1"
*NO RUN ACTIVE*

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@FIN                                  Mike Van Pelt, Unisys Silicon Valley
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