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In a dorm, in the pre-digital cable days and before our dorm officially had cable, we bought hundreds of feet of cable and some signal amplifiers and gained acc
by wallflower 16y ago
In a dorm, in the pre-digital cable days and before our dorm officially had cable, we bought hundreds of feet of cable and some signal amplifiers and gained access to the basement/maintenance areas and spliced the cable feed from the Dean who had it and ran cable up through the ducts to the ten or so rooms in our wing. Over Winter break, we came back and found the signal lost (someone had removed a segment to tell us that yeah, we know what you're doing). We replaced it.
- Terretta 16y agoIn my dorm the extra run had to go from the ceiling above the dean's office, room to room above the drop ceiling tiles, through the built-in closets' top cabinets, and through cinderblock between every other room. Students were not allowed to have TVs, so the other part of the hack was to be in a video production class to be allowed to have a monitor, but open it up and splice a tuner to a BNC input then use a coax to BNC coupler, so the monitor looked absolutely normal from the outside. Awfully complicated to end up watching USA's "Up All Night" B movies hosted by Gilbert Gottfried.
- sbierwagen 16y ago>Students were not allowed to have TVs Where the hell did you go to school, Utah?