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On Jul 31, 4:23 pm, Dustin <bughunter.dus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com> wrote innews:970494cd-6a7b-436e-af3e-4e1d5c67c2c7@v6g2000prd.googlegroups.com:
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> > On Jul 29, 12:46 am, sfdavidka...@yahoo.com (David Kaye) wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> In over 8 years doing this full time I've only had to reformat
> >> maybe 4 ti
> > mes.  
> >> I've had to reinstall the OS about 10 times.  But this one really
> >> caugh
> > t me by
> >> surprise.
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> > Lets see...
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> > CP/M
> > 8" floppy disks
> > 5 1/4" floppies, but with Hard Sector holes cut in them
> > Data Storage on Cassette Tape
> > Soldering together your own Serial Cable to make sure you got the
> > Handshaking right.
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> > Eight years, heh heh.  (Not flam'n,) just ruminating nostalgically.
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> > Hell, 'the Cuckoo's Egg' for that matter.
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> > TBerk
> > Now I want to pop some corn and go watch a 'Sneakers' & 'Hackers'
> > double bill...
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> Which did you find to be more realistic for it's time? Sneakers or
> Hackers?
>

Sneakers, (I'm tempted to add "of course" to that).

'Hacker's was aimed at a younger audience, was 'hip' and 'kool' and so
on*. 'Sneakers on the other hand, while still making concessions to
Hollywood and the necessary evils of getting a story tot he screen,
was sly about dropping insider wink-wink knowledge and wasn't afraid
to talk over the head of the audience, a bit, for what we might take
as authenticity.

Another difference is that 'Hackers' was ladened w/ trying to describe
hacking  a system with a graphical interface that looked like
Microsoft Flight Simulator, "but better".

*(Hackers was also infamous for the young Angelina Jolie 'dream
sequence...).  hubba, hubba.  <--- (gratuitous, rhetorical reference
and requisite response complete.)

Of the two, 'Hackers' is more silly fun & 'Sneakers' is more mature,
serious fun. I make that observation not just based on the ave. age of
the cast btw.

If you care to think about it, both raise interesting questions about
Security vs Freedom, (and Responsibility for that matter).


TBerk