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when hackers talked in even parity and were 40 columns wide

Gosh, this takes me back: Message # 00661 **Hacker’s section** From: JONATHAN BARBER To: ALL Subject:EUCLID Date: 6/3/86 Fob all of you who want an easy hack heres how to get onto the EUCLID computer.First di!l up’ JANET gn 01 831 6181 for 1200/75 or try 01 388 2333.Type PAD and RETURN as soon as [...]

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Preserve history of British computing at Wikipedia: GEC OS4000

Wikipedia is wonderful, but gosh they can be arses in a “Water is wet [citation needed]” sort of way. Andrew Gabriel writes: I have put quite a lot of info about OS4000 and the GEC 4000 series onto Wikipedia recently, which you might find interesting, or even want to add to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_4000_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS4000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_Computers The [...]

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My first OS4000 login in 20 years (approx)

This should freak out a few friends. OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:05:53 Logging in user ALEC password ID last used WED 24 JUN 2009 07:56:36 STARTED – WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 error 10 unknown command: USER.INITJCL EXEC [...]

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