Comment by drivers99

Definitely an urban legend at this point. A reddit thread[0] mentions it being collected in 1990 from computer stories going around in the 80s[1]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/5yrs1...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227607-the-devouring-fu...