Comment on Last channel rule
Grimy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is what I was trying to get off too. A few years later, I found out the art channel would sometimes play dirty movies on Saturday late at night but they usually involved incest(?). Then I switched to music channels when they started showing provocative music video so that was nice. I had one of those little tvs with the vcr integrated. Good times.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Should have bought a subscription to Radio and Electronics. I built a descrambler using their schematics.
Holy crap some of it still exists. schematicsforfree.com/…/1984-02 Analog Cable TV D…
Grimy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ha, knowing about this would have probably changed my life in more ways then one. I would have started my career as a hobby and saved a lot more time.
And God knows I would have been serious about learning this stuff as a teen if there was free porn at the end of it.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its amazing I didn’t end up in jail. I built a few of the descramblers and worst of all ended up with a 300 baud modem when the local chevrolet place Threw out a bunch of ‘junk’. It was a non hayes bell modem and a pain in the ass to use but I would have taken a bullet for it. I built a blue box and later a black box. Then I got busy with free phone calls. Phreaking BBS’s all over with great plans on taking control of the world around you. I still remember the date that they replaced the old analog switch in my town.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I hear phreaking stories and I’m sad I was born a decade too late :(
_stranger_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You think circuits are your friend? By the time I was old enough to convince my parents to buy me a soldering iron I was already a man.