My oldest hack was in the '80s when I was at school. We had a network of BBC Masters 
and Micros set up and a friend and I managed to work out how to pull the really 
annoying music out of a game he had, save it to the shared hard drive and remotely 
order every machine to load up and play it...
The resulting cacophony was my first lesson in serial access issues - each machine had 
to wait to load the song from the hard drive, then played it immediately.  Version 2, 
which gave them a few seconds to all catch up was better. And it included the ability 
to lock out the keyboard too.
Of course, the number of pupils who knew enough to do that sort of thing could be 
counted on the fingers of one hand, so we didn't get away with it for long.

Jos

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