I would have been in the slammer for good. Back in the Stone Age, we had an Interdata 7/16 with 5 terminals, 3 teletype, 2 actual CRT's. Being that there was no protection of other user spaces to speak of, you could easily mess with other people's work. I've never had the heart to do anything really malicious, but I did have fun getting other people's terminals to print messages, and I would pretend to be the computer talking to them. It was all fun and games until this one guy took it too seriously, and actually thought the computer was threatening to shock him if he didn't stop pounding the keys so hard. He freaked, and ran into the bathroom crying, and even though I apologized and explained that it was me, he refused to ever touch the terminals again.
