Structo wrote:Hehehehe, I had a Sinclair 1K that only took basic code.
Then a VIC 20 and later a Commodore 64.
Think about it, 64K memory! Whoo Hoo!
I can remember typing in pages of code and making one mistake so that the program didn't run.
I had the floppy drive (5 1/4"), the color monitor, the printer and a joy stick.
Hard to believe that was only about 25 years ago.
Holy crap, VIC 20! I had completely forgotten about them! Yes, and it is hilarious to think that 64k used to be the standard. I had those old Apple II+ and IIe that had a bunch of 8k on a stick to make 64k, IIRC. Then had a IIc that had 128k and thought that was awesome! Used to program in pascal and basic on it with a 9" and 12" monochrome green and amber monitor, 5 1/4" floppy drive that ran Apple ProDOS (just a blinking prompt) and an Epson dot matrix printer. Hayes SmartModem rounded it all out. Used to hang out on a pirate themed BBS called Port Royal. Everybody had clever handles. Simpler times for sure.
I never got into Apple computers.
Probably a result of the crowd I ran with.
A bunch of mad scientist fellows that loved to tweak the then new Personal Computers from IBM.
I remember this one computer at a trade school I attended, can't remember the brand but it may have been Digital, it was a 8-16 bit split processor.
It was called a mini main frame and was the size of a decent sized stereo receiver. I can't remember all the specs like how much RAM it had but I know it had the 5 1/4 floppy drive.
It had four keyboard terminals and four monitors.
This computer cost $35,000 in 1983!
Anyway, getting back to hacking.
I guess I never understood the thrill of hacking because in most cases you don't get to see the results.
I'm talking about malicious hacking like denial of service attacks and the like or spreading viruses and trojans.
It's not like walking by old man Caruthers house and throwing a rock threw his window and running for you lives because you know he has a shotgun loaded with rock salt.
Structo wrote:Anyway, getting back to hacking.
I guess I never understood the thrill of hacking because in most cases you don't get to see the results. I'm talking about malicious hacking like denial of service attacks and the like or spreading viruses and trojans.
Which seems to be the majority of what we (as the public) are most aware of since the effects (damage) can be so widespread. I guess I can relate on some level to a Robin Hood mentality in hacking where the hacker might say rob from Microsoft and redistribute to the poor. But I have never seen a virus that hacked Gates' personal wealth and redistributed it to the people for payback for how much Windows crashes, requires rebooting, causes loss of productivity, changes versions without fixing old mistakes etc. Alas, there is little altruism LOL.
Structo wrote:It's not like walking by old man Caruthers house and throwing a rock threw his window and running for you lives because you know he has a shotgun loaded with rock salt.
Old Man Caruthers...
I can hear him yelling from his fence line, red-faced, shaking his fist ...
My son found a documented vulnerability in the forum software that allows a new sign up to insert content before being approved, so there's at least one known problem with that version.
He updated the software and so far it looks like we only lost a couple of posts.
If anyone sees any problems, let me know.
