

| Subject: | /f Re: answers to the Universe. |
| From: | Mark Janello |
| Date: | Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:22:57 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Scott Beckstead wrote: > of shampoo? Programmers nightmare an open ended loop. > Scott When I was in high school, we had a PDP 8 (I think) computer, one of those ones with yellow punched tape to store your programs and huge rolls of that cheap yellow teletype paper as your "screen." One student, having learned a tiny amount of BASIC, wrote this program: 10 PRINT "MR. BOND SUCKS MOOSE" 20 GO TO 10 Unfortunately, he hadn't learned the artful use of ^C, so he was getting pretty worried that Mr. Bond would show up as line after line after line printed "MR. BOND SUCKS MOOSE." My brother had some fun with him for a while by telling him, oh no we'll just have to wait until it runs out of paper. . . . . Mark mjanello@umich.edu '62 Kombi
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