Somewhere this year i got a subscription on HackTic a dutch hacker magazine.
Honestly most of the things i didn’t understand ( i was not into Unix at that time.)
I still got most of the magazines, except for some i lend to others and never got back.
In number 8 (1990) there was a schematic for copying magnetic strip cards. It took a while to build this, but i got it working in the end. I managed to get a working bank card copied onto my Film rental store card. And we managed to copy magnetic cards which would hold information about how many copies you could make at the school xerosmachines. So we copied a full card and when it was empty rewrote information on it to fill it again.
At the MTS in Hengelo we also had a hidden switch for the payphone to get our money back.
While attending the LTS (lower vocational technical school), i could often be found in the computer lab. I was the only student who had his own key. We had a classroom with 16 computers, 2 drives at the master station and a printer. Everything was connected using Econet. (These where the first networked computers i’ve worked with) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econet
So every moment we didn’t have a class, i was there. Even when i had to do final exams, i was late entering, and sometimes one of the first leaving.
Today (2022) i ran an emulator on my machine and typed in one of my old programs found in a notebook. (The real system above pictured, i have to repair) By the way, this is one of the computers from school, even with its original wooden monitor stand. The school contacted me (a few years after leaving this school) if i wanted to buy one of the machines.