Subj : Re: Beautiful hacks
To   : esc
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sun Oct 22 2023 22:34:48

  Re: Re: Beautiful hacks
  By: esc to Ben Collver on Sun Oct 22 2023 11:59:35

Hi, esc.

 > This reminds me of a silly computer lab hack that I'm proud to have come up
 > with myself back in the day :P

Love the home grown stuff :)


 > We had computers with Windows 95, IIRC. They were all on a LAN. The
 > filesystem naturally wouldn't let us run command.com or anything, but the
 > web browser (Netscape Navigator) let us put in the telnet application
 > manually. I pointed to command.com. Then, from your browser, just type
 > "telnet://" and instant command prompt :P

I briefly worked in a school where they'd implemented loads of stuff like this. No access to cmd.exe, but command.com worked fine. I'm pretty sure copying it to a new file name also worked. No floppy drive listed in the file dialogue but you could just type a: in the filename box and it would open up as usual... so many half baked "security measures"!

 > We played a lot of LAN DOOM back
 > then while the teacher was in the front of the class and couldn't see our
 > screens.

This brings back memories... The 4 player serial networking mod linking the design tech prep room computers together for a quick deathmatch - you'd have to put the very best two computers in the middle because only they had enough horsepower to run two serial ports at once!

BobW
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