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		boffinAudio on July 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Got called to a professor’s office after a complai... We used to 'rain-bomb' each others terminals: $ rain \| wall This was always really fun with the newcomers to the ops centers ..

notbeuller on July 25, 2023 [–]

Our unix (Gould GLX or something?) with dozens of terminals lacked appropriate permissions on /dev/ttyNN - so we just piped rain directly to the neighbors terminal.

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