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qubex on Jan 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2

Way back in 1994 or thereabouts I coded a faux PIN-number-cracker inspired by this scene on my Psion Series 3 (128 kB total memory) in the natively available OPA language (which is basically BASIC). It was a fun project for a thirteen/fourteen year-old.

pentaphobe on Jan 7, 2021 [–]

me too! mine was on an Atari Portfolio like the original, but I wasn't able to get it as smooth as in the movie using BASIC

In hindsight I'm guessing I made the noob mistake of relying on a slow PRNG or similar

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