Article 41396 of comp.sys.cbm: Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca comp.sys.cbm:41396 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!csbruce From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) Subject: Re: WAIT 6502 Message-ID: Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: ccnga.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!) References: <41aen2$f1g@hppadbk.waterloo.hp.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:15:36 GMT Kevin Fisher writes: >I was cleaning house recently and ran across an old CBM PET book chock >full 'o BASIC programs and games...towards the end of the book there >was a small appendix about secret things hidden in the PET. One of them >had to do with the WAIT 6502 command...the book wouldn't tell me what >happened, it just said "try it and find out!"...it was something about >an 'inside joke' that the BASIC programmers put into the ROM. > >Anyway, does anyone know about this? What is the 'inside joke' this >book was talking about? I have a CBM 8032 machine, but this command doesn't >do anything to it...the book mentioned that it only works on certain >ROM revisions... When you enter "WAIT 6502,n", you get "MICROSOFT!" printed n times. No, there is NO ESCAPE from the hype! Keep on Hackin'! -Craig Bruce csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca "Let's see... $1 billion in advertising... that's $10,000 per unmentioned bug."