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1. Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 20:40:56 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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   @tom @djsundog

   my high school was loaned one of these systems when they first were released (they weren't cheap and one was shared across entire regions).

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project

   the data was recovered in 2011 and archived here (pick any random bit of the UK you are familiar with to see what it was like 32 years ago)

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

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   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 21:04:08 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     @elomatreb @tom @djsundog

     there were quite a few BBC Masters at my high school from 1986 onwards (replacing Model B's).

     The numeric keyboard had * and # like a phone (for viewdata). They were networked, I coded a RAT using one which I concealed using the start screen of a legit wordprocessing app, a * would reload the (legit) WP screen (if a teacher was watching), # was the RAT control menu (it could even look into keyboard buffers of any other machine and thus obtain passwords) 😆 🐀 🕵🏽

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