2 Aug
2023
2 Aug
'23
6:37 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023, Erik E. Fair wrote:
Even simple spew could be dangerous: who remembers
"intelligent
terminal" transmit-back codes and the mischief those caused?
ASCII bombs were fairly popular in the old MS-DOS BBS days (format the
disk, anyone?), and it was possible over packet radio too (sort of a BBS
via Amateur i.e. "ham" radio).
-- Dave (vk2kfu)