How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians – Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects

Re:How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians – Then Made Us... by Enderboi on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:22AM (#35243378)

Every few months I keep telling myself I need to buy one of Cliff's Klein bottles to go alongside my (very dogeared) paperback copy of The Cuckoo's Egg :)

Learning all the default VMS passwords definately didn't get me in trouble during High School with the state's herd of Vaxen... I mean the book was right there, in the library! Wink wink :P

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Re:How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians – Then Made Us... by CliffStoll on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @03:41AM (#35243464)

You used VMS in high school? You must be old enough to vote!

Blushing slightly, my high school had an IBM 1620, where I learned machine coding, assembler, and that most modern language, Fortran. 1965: punch-cards and blinking panel lights.

Yep, I feel like a fossil.

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