Talk:Unisys ICON

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Who out there in WikiLand remembers using one of these badboys in school? --PudgyMoogle 12:47, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

I cut my teeth on the ICON, from grade 7'sh (1988 or so), all the way through to my last days of highschool in the mid-late 90's (yeah, I was a slacker). One trick I remember was that if you mashed control z enough between entering your login information and before the command prompt came up, you'd drop into privileged shell, although thanks to the pseudo-graphical login, the text would come out extremely small (about four pixels per character high). I was such a nerd, I had memorized the sequence of entries to the adduser command, and could make myself a root account with ease. I got into a lot of trouble, playing on these things. A root account and simple shell script got me sent to the principal's office. It changed the text attributes of every machine in the room (about 20'sh) to green on purple, confusing the following class enough that they had to reboot every machine in the room.. Fun times. As for software, I do remember there being a rather shoddy MS-DOS alike one could run, although how it functioned I don't recall. I wish I could have got my hands on a couple workstations and the server when the Peel Board phased them out in favour of DOS/Windows 3 machines right after I left highschool. -- X3J11 16:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)