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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Oldest Hack Sept. 1970 Just for Fun



My oldest hack was in the '80s when I was at school. We had a network of BBC 
Masters and Micros set up and a friend and I managed to work out how to pull 
the really annoying music out of a game he had, save it to the shared hard 
drive and remotely order every machine to load up and play it...
The resulting cacophony was my first lesson in serial access issues - each 
machine had to wait to load the song from the hard drive, then played it 
immediately.  Version 2, which gave them a few seconds to all catch up was 
better. And it included the ability to lock out the keyboard too.
Of course, the number of pupils who knew enough to do that sort of thing could 
be counted on the fingers of one hand, so we didn't get away with it for long.

Jos

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