Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Jul 27 16:31:01 2001

Golly! I remember that movie, but IIRC, it was part of an afternoon TV serial.
I remember the scene where the sleepy cop has the phone up to his ear backwards,
thereby thwarting the bad guy's attempt to dispense with him.

That "Number 5 is Alive" is was a sequel to a different movie, one that my kids
liked pretty well, as it was about a robot and its builder.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_smart.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited


> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> > Gives a whole new meaning to "reach out and touch someone".
>
> That reminds of of that movie from years back: "Number 5 is Alive;" I
> think that was the correct title. In the movie, someone was
> electrocuting people by sending a high-voltage/current spike through
> the telephone network to their telephones. This was back before
> electronic switching systems were in wide-spread use. The movie
> showed lots of banks of the old step-by-step switches with all of the
> selectors and connctors moving about. It was really neat to see all
> of that equipment in motion; they showed how calls were, supposedly,
> traced.
>
> Its a shame that that AT&T insisted on scrapping all of those old bits
> of equipment; when I worked there back in the mid 1980s, in a
> department that did central office planning and was still working with
> that old switching equipment, I was told that I couldn't purchase, or
> otherwise obtain, any of it, that the company's policy was to scrap
> it. :-(
>
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