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  • Re: The "Wonder" Years

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Mortar M. on Friday, January 02, 2026 12:18:12
    Mortar M. wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    My green monochrome monitor ended up getting burned in with the FrontDoor WFC screen.

    Why didn't you shut off the monitor when not needed?

    I liked the green glow at night. :)



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Adept on Friday, January 02, 2026 12:18:12
    Adept wrote to Mortar M. <=-

    (I kid, but only slightly. I think active sysops wanted to know what
    was going on with their BBS, and that includes knowing that the system
    is down because something odd was on the screen. And during the night, clearly the screen was functioning as a nightlight.)

    In 1991, I went to SCO for a 5-day UNIX class. I rebooted the BBS,
    figured all would be OK. A day or so into it, the BBS rang no answer.
    Not much I could do about it.

    I got back into my apartment, and saw the problem. FrontDoor couldn't
    initialize the modem, and so it gave up and the batch file looped back
    to restart it. repeated over and over, about once every 45 seconds.

    The problem was that each time it exited, it let out a little SOS in
    morse code through the PC speaker. Every 45 seconds. 24 hours a day.
    For 4 days straight. I'm glad I didn't run into my next door neighbor
    after that!



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