Old stuff I still knowOur Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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I can whistleThe carrier tone to a 300/300 modem. Useless nowerdays but was useful for testing out the connectivity of my computer to acoustic coupler back in the day.
Other things:
I remember the intricacies of blueboxing like it were yesterday.
Using 2400 baud terminals to access the internets - long before this fangled HTTP thing there was telnet, gopher and WAIS. Not that I used them much, I was mostly found using IRC.
x.29 on the original JAnet at 9600 baud. Mmmmm. (n000020060300 was birmingham ACSIS)
When /etc/passwd actually contained passwords
Wardialling 0800/0500 numbers to find those elusive modems
Going through skips at various BT exchanges to find juicy info
/Nowt but fields
(, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:55, 2 replies)
Im impressed.
And at the same time jealous, that not only did you have this knowledge but you could put it to use.
seems these days phreaking is all but dead.
(, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:51, closed)
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