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Offline rbcp

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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #45 on: February 17, 2010, 10:36:42 AM »
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There's even a book or a software package behind the guy's head called HACKER. So, I'm guessing "hacker" didn't have quite the negative connotations back then. I think it just meant someone good at computing, and not a lonely, sub-literate fifteen year old with bad hygiene who devises feeble phishing schemes and uses l33t speak with no trace of irony. Phear me. Phear this Christmas special.

That's not a book, that's a computer game for the Apple IIe.  I shoplifted it from Waldenbooks and played it for months.  You got to pretend to be a hacker, trying to get into some secret government computer.
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Re: Back in MY day...
« Reply #46 on: February 17, 2010, 11:05:29 AM »
I remember playing that on, I think, an Amstrad. Freaking thing took forever to rewind.
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