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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 18:33:28 JST Charlie Stross

   This made me think of a 5 year old slightly rusted/beaten up model where you open the back and find a homemade rack containing a PDP-11, a greenscreen terminal, and an acoustic coupler modem plus assorted cables alligator clips for hot-wiring a phone booth when its crew of leisure-suit wearing mutton-chops-sporting long haired undercover agents want to hack ARPAnet
   https://tenforward.social/@nickthewright/113754144008570468

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     Frank Endrullat 🌻 (frankendrullat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:10:43 JST Frank Endrullat 🌻

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage @cstross Come to think of it, there was no hacking in the A-Team, if I remember correctly. Just social engineering, lots of shooting without killing anyone and no blood. 🤷♂️

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:12:35 JST Charlie Stross

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     @pikesley Have you ever SEEN the cooling system of a Cray-1?!? The bit that goes under the floor level, weighs several tons, and uses now-highly-illegal Freon coolants to keep it from glowing cherry red and emulating a reactor meltdown when you boot it?

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     Malcontent Negotiation (pikesley@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:12:37 JST Malcontent Negotiation

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     @cstross there is absolutely a Cray-1 in the back of that

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 19:30:05 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Infoseepage

     @FrankEndrullat @Infoseepage The A Team was aimed at the 1970s kids TV market, back when gore was a no-no. (It's *hillarious* to watch the 2019-22 Harley Quinn animated series if your expectations of cartoon animation were set in the 1970s—blood splatter everywhere! 1970s censors would have been traumatized for life.)

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     Frank Endrullat 🌻 (frankendrullat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 22:55:19 JST Frank Endrullat 🌻

     • Infoseepage

     @Infoseepage @cstross Oh yes!