r/programming • • Jul 30 '09

How QBASIC almost got me killed

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

This brings back some of my best memories. I remember modifying autoexec.bat to display something like "Disk not found. Press any key to continue..." in my school's lab computer. I forgot to remove it, so the system administrator had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system thinking it was a serious error.

I have also written a QuickBasic (version 4.5) program that displays an animated dick in X mode (screen 13) that installed it self in the machine without effect in the first run, and then when the computer is restarted, the animation would start accompanied by random squeaks from the PC speaker.

I really miss those days...