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Maybe some missing features: Screen burn. Leave it on for a few months displaying the same stuff and get a grey burned in shadow forever showing 'Login:' at th
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Maybe some missing features:
Screen burn. Leave it on for a few months displaying the same stuff
and get a grey burned in shadow forever showing 'Login:' at the top
left of your terminal.
Gauss distortion: Bring a strong magnet close to your terminal to have
all the letters suck to one side and stay there for days.
TEMPEST fun: Broadcast the contents of your badly shielded screen to
another badly shielded screen in the same room (yes that's real and
something I've actually seen).
- pugworthy 5y agoFallout terminal hacking mode?
- jvandonsel 5y agoHow about adding the 15 kHz flyback transformer whine? Though most people who remember these terminals probably can’t hear that frequency any more.
- parksy 5y agoI can hear that frequency all the time nowadays. It follows me everywhere...
- Sophistifunk 5y agoMy brother (late 30s) is the same, he's still bothered by anti-teenager and anti-bat repellent gadgets, too. Cracks me up every time. And he listens to more metal and attends more shows than I do, too.
- parksy 5y agoThose repellents bother my kids as well, and they're everywhere apparently but I can't hear them. Permanent tinnitus from far too many loud concerts in my 20s and 30s. All I can say to younger readers is: wear earplugs. You won't appreciate not having tinnitus until you do, then it's permanent :/
- joak 5y agoThe Apple II, and most home computers of that era, use a TV as a display. So if you pushed the signal power high enough, what you typed was visibly on all TVs around. As a teenager I remember sending love messages to the neighbor. She was mystified.