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Sysadmin finds insecure printer, remotely prints 'Fix Me!' notice

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"Paper tape was only the teleprinters and where I was, this was only for BASIC. Compiling and running Fortran was only by submitting batch jobs on the aforementioned cards."

QUB had a home-grown system* which allowed FORTRAN to be compiled and then run from teletypes. I managed to crash the whole mainframe from a teletype.

*Including their main OS which turned out to have been somewhat larger than George when they finally adopted that.

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