DB> On Mar 30, 1994 at 22:58, Roy Mcneill of 3:711/934 wrote:

 RM> me, I'm going to make the led display show the temperature of the cpu.

 DB> On an IBM RS/6000, a flashing "888" on the front LED panel
 DB> is something you *don't* want to see - the "crazy eights"
 DB> indicate *seriously* bad karma for the Unix workstation.

 DB> So what did we do?  We wrote a cron job to periodically
 DB> flash "888" on the front of the machine.  :-)

evil, evil... Remember punch cards? And the piles and piles of
little punched-out rectangles of cardboard (chads) that could be
pinched from the card punch bins? Wandering down the corridor of
the residential hall one night, I spotted two idiots on their hands
and knees outside a closed door, in fits of stifled giggles. They
had this balloon, filled with chads, rubber-banded to a biro tube,
stuffed under the door, with the occupant inside and asleep, and
they were trying to blow up the balloon till it burst. Silly
buggers were giggling too hard to blow. I didn't see the result -
looked too unhealthy to be near...

cheers
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