Slightly OT for those of us who started on Tandy Hardware

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>I can go you one better...
>
>My best friend, bless him, back in our university days got into *nix
>slightly later than I did.  He changed his password on his shell account to
>^Skullz.  Then he wondered for a few days why his terminal froze up every
>time he logged in.
>
>Think about it.  :)
>
>I could not help but laugh when he told me what he'd done.  It was
>completely forgiveable, methinks!  He's never lived that down, even though
>we have had parity for 20+ years.

The Tandy Scripsit word processing program used ctrl-S for
something (search?), and when the Model 12 came out one of the
function keys on the left of of the numeric keypad sent ctrl-S to
make things "easier".  I don't know how many calls I got saying
their computer stopped displaying.  I think WordStar also used
ctrl-S and ctrl-Q for something, not knowing anything about
serial communications protocols.

Of course the Microsoft people didn't know anything about
networking or security, but that's another story.

Bill
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