Poor computing teachers
Looks like they get a lot of flak. They deserve it though, they're all useless. One of ours was a P.E. teacher before the summer. Came back after the holidays, and he'd learnt all he needed to know to teach us computing apparently.

He wasn't much shittier than the "real" computing teachers though.

Yeah, but pranks.

We, being geeky shits, were considerably better on the BBC Bs than he.

We once wrote some nice code that emulated the os prompt on the BBCs. AND, no matter what you typed, no matter what keys you actually pressed, it typed, character by character, our predefined message. There was also a peek or a poke or whatever to make it stay in ram and re-initialise if the reset keys were pressed, and it disabled the break key...

So we shout the teacher over. "sir, my keyboard's not working."

He comes over and starts "typing" randomly to see if the keyboard responds...

"I am homosexual" comes up on the screen.

he hits break, hits some more keys.

"gay gay gay gay gay"

he resets the machine.

"i love hairy naked men"

Childish as fuck, but my god we pissed ourselves. We were only 14 or so.

To be honest though, I think I'd still laugh about it today.
(weegiegeek, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 15:38, 2 replies)

Remeber
*.remote

Let you type on someone elses BBC - HOURS of fun.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 16 Dec 2007, 18:29, closed)

..
Ahhh, those *FX commands as well - was it 201,1 that gave you the rolling screen when you pressed Break?
(frak back from the land down under, Mon 17 Dec 2007, 1:30, closed)