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Hackers united

By Marc Nostromo

Although I don’t consider myself as a hacker, I feel a connection with what they do and what I’m pursuing i.e. trying to make things happen that was not originally designed to.

Back in the days, I purchased a Roland W-30 – a 12 bit sampling keyboard – and soon discovered that, to the contrary of what the people in the shop had told me, it didn’t allow midi sample dump and I couldn’t really do sample editing which was my primary idea. So, I reversed the problem and decided to attack the floppy drives. Since they were standard PC floppys, I started dissecting the internal format until I had a good enough information about the floppy and was able to load and save the samples using my amiga. Seems like to this day, the information is stilll lying aound…

Anyways, this was probably the most “hacking” I’ve ever done and I never considered it as a major exploit.

Yesterday, I found throught Digital tools a fantastic discovery channel documentary about the famous early hackers. Starting with Captain Crunch and his phone line phreaking, it moves up to the early days of home computing and is really interesting to watch. Enjoy.