Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!dannyb From: danny burstein Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: the takeover of the US embassy, was: Why the Soviet computer failed Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 03:03:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <20220728221613@news.eternal-september.org> <8f7fc3c4-6ab0-4345-888f-aa531cc35a2cn@googlegroups.com> <60uhfh942f3d8boj4jsrm6ls6rbv1143je@4ax.com> <20220814182335.44748600f113730057df4b7e@eircom.net> <6dec26a7-b033-409c-ae5f-47e8f600c9fdn@googlegroups.com> <105451250.682535150.845961.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20220819002100.9ee9342968416d090a2d0727@eircom.net> <1380035000.682570583.203227.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 03:03:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="7055"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:221821 In <1380035000.682570583.203227.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Peter Flass writes: >Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:05:55 -0500 >> D.J. wrote: >> >>> The staff used a shredder that cut them into strips, instead of >>> confetti. The Iranians put them back together. >This was apparently done entirely by hand, by a bunch of college students. One of the magazines I regret losing was one of the anti-US publications (don't recall the name, sorry) that the local commie/leftie/socialist/pinko bookstore carried. One edition had page after page of these reconstructed documents, and yes, they were strips that had been reconstructed by hand. -- _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]