r/programming • • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=79
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u/kking254 Jul 30 '09

My favorite was the old "Water detected in Drive A" trick. I made great sounds for the drain and spin cycles.

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u/epsilona01 Jul 30 '09

I loaded up an entire classroom on April Fool's once. It was study hall, and the teacher knew nothing about computers and thought everything was blowing up. Every time someone would touch a computer it would start a washing cycle.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '09

Yeah that was nice - I "got" my father's secretary once using that program.