The computer
I was lucky enough to be at school when the first PCs came out. Our school had one - I think it was a Acorn GTi but I might be wrong -and the 300-or-so students had to share it.

It didn't do much. You could type in your name and it would show it on the screen in green writing. Or you could put a floppy disk the size of a 12" LP in it and save your name for posterity.

I had bigger ambitions. So I found a way, a decade or so before the internet, to hack into the phone lines and access the Strategic Air Command mainframe at Hawk Mountain, Arizona, and call in an air strike on my school.

Within hours a phalanx of F16s were overhead and launching a lethal rain of missiles on our red-brick secondary school so that the whole place was reduced to a gore-strewn rubble wasteland of death. Perhaps 400 people were slaughtered during that attack, but I survived by hiding under a table.

Happy days!
(frankspencer, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 11:00, 1 reply)

Frank, you bloody liar
It'd would take at least 16 hours for that air strike to be made, going on 1980's prices.
(frankspencer, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 11:22, closed)