When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

desatyr@mastodon.social

@nina_kali_nina
Remenber well, how jealous we were about his acoustic modem.

We didn' t even know about things like that.

And about the passwords....

nah, don' even mention it, or I' ll get nuts

mmu_man@m.g3l.org

@nina_kali_nina that can't be happening, right?

oggie@woof.group

@ii_infinitum @nina_kali_nina

Honest to god what I 'want' is a sort of faux 'old school' setup in a few ways, and among other things a nice heavy clunker of a landline rotary phone (if it doesnt' weigh at least 7 or 8 lbs and couldn't be used as a murder weapon in a 1940s movie, get out of here), that I can drop onto that cradle which could ping to a pi to open the firewall for that machine, etc.

Just lots of silly retro/fun touches like that.

theorangetheme@en.osm.town

@nina_kali_nina "We built Joshua, from the hit film 'Don't Build Joshua'."

nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

@mmu_man from the script:

- General, we know they're fine men, but in a nuclear war we can't afford to have missiles lying dormant in those silos because those men refuse to turn the keys when the computers tell 'em to!

- You mean when the president orders them to.

- The president will probably follow the computer war plan. That's a fact!

I wept T_T

ii_infinitum@mastodon.social

@Oggie @nina_kali_nina I’d very much like to hang out in the office you describe. I’ve wanted an old school TTY for similar reasons, but the old western union one I found was way too heavy to sneak out.