I never got a chance to play with SOO, so I didn't know about that "feature."
My reference was to filling the console buffer because the console would stop
displaying output until someone pressed the ENTER key.  Since the spacebar left
no visible character on the screen, an operator might not notice that he had
bumped the spacebar until it was too late.

Wayne





Art Bahrs <[log in to unmask]> on 03/28/2000 02:08:31 PM

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Hi Wayne :)
   Wasn't it the "Son of Overlord" (SOO) program that crashed the system
with the space bar?

Art "remembering a Prof saying don't hit that key hehe" Bahrs
P.S. Yes, I did hit it.... oops... this is how we learn to reboot/reload a
system hehe

----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: HP3000 'old timers league' qualification test:


> 1.  How does an operator manage to crash the system using only the
spacebar on
> the system console?
>
> 2.  When do you need to use CONTROL-F repeatedly?
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
>
>
> Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> on 03/28/2000 12:11:55 PM
>
> Please respond to Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
>
> Subject:  Re: HP3000 'old timers league' qualification test:
>
>
>
> Mark writes:
> > What did typing 'COORS' do at a boot-up.
>
> And when a customer calls you up saying they're in the process of
rebooting
> their Series III and it's hung and nothing is happening, what do you tell
> them to do?
>
> Or what happens if you idly play with the System Switch Register (switches
> and lights) while rebooting your Series III?
>
> The problem with the 3000 world these days is that it's old and stagnant
> enough that virtually *everyone* is an "old timer" to one degree of
another.
> What we need in the 3000 community are more new users who *don't* know the
> answers to trivia questions.
>
> G.