On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:44:41 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine:
> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:42 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> > history being written by the winners, so the whole thing may have
> > been white washed to a high polish by now.
>
> People who put their telephone handset into a thingy to be able to do
> data telecommunication, before there was the Internet for public, tend
> to be more sceptic/paranoid than youngsters ;).
Never did that. My first modem was a 120 baud device, but it was wired.
Hooked up to the precursor to the coco3 I'm running right now, in the
basement, logged into it over a serial port using minicom on this linux
box.
> The reason for this is,
> that at that time, we might be hackers our self. I guess we can't
> compare the easy hacking that was possible at C64 times (or Amiga ;),
> with today data protection :D.
The amiga is actually fairly late model here folks, I started with a quest
super elf I built from a kit. Circa '77.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) LILO, you've got me on my knees! -- David Black, dblack@email-addr-hidden, with apologies to Derek and the Dominos, and Werner Almsberger _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Thu Dec 16 08:15:02 2010
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