Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark H Harris Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:24:24 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: <533450B8.3040309@gmail.com> References: <532f9a6b$0$29994$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eSF12mcVRIwL+eMIMJ03mA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69208 On 3/25/14 6:38 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> > A couple of us managed to "steal" the school login/password (don't > think we ever used it, but...)... The teaching assistant didn't notice the > paper tape punch was active when persuaded to login to let us run a short > program (high school BASIC class, with a dial-up teletype). Playing back > the tape and manually spinning the platen during the password > obscuration/input phase gave us the plain text. > I still have one of my old BASIC tapes from way back in the day; I wanted to get the code back, or just remember why I had saved the tape? One of my linux user group buddies locally rigged up an optical reader (IF) to a single board micro controller... we pulled the tape by hand using the center drive holes (sprocket holes) as a strobe and after a couple of false attempts read the entire tape into a text file. That tape still have the caster oil smell of the tty that produced it; smell has a very strong memory association / I can still hear that thing running in my head. ... haven't seen one physically in years. marcus