Posted 26 January 2014 - 10:48 PM
This reminds me of an experience when we first starting using computers to color analyze negatives prior to printing in our commercial photo lab. We were using the old Tandy Computers then, the portable ones with the keyboard that slid into a slot under the monitor. A cable led to the analyzing stack that was mounted in the light beam between the neg stage and the lens. It was the first week and we were all still getting used to them. I was in the darkroom and decided (for what reason I cannot remember) to press several keys in sequence. Something like "CTRL - ALT, F7 and click the right mouse button" - or some such strange sequence. Up popped green lines of code on the monitor. I got my partner who was the digital guy (I was the photo guy), and he said, "How did you do that, you're not supposed to be able to access the program? I had accidentally discovered some sort of backdoor. To this day I still press random keys just to see what will happen, with very surprising results sometimes. No fatalities yet, some artificial respiration needed sometimes.