Re: Lessons learnt? I doubt it.
It was not difficult to make a card that would cause a reboot on certain mainframes. There was a Boroughs machine at Warwick Uni in the early 80s that was susceptible (allegedly). Scatter enough of those in the pigeonholes used by students to submit their jobs and the computer will slow to crawl until they are all found.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
