Dave Plummer
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1,147 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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A little bit.
Uh, what kind of code runs them?
I don't really know.
I tried to get down and get inside access to one and it was very hard.
They don't want to tell you a lot about them.
I'm sure it's not that deep of a secret, but yeah, cause they're all basic windows PCs, but they're basic windows PCs on top of a very secure enclave of some kinds that I don't know a lot about.
Well, in the 70s or 80s, there was a tech in Vegas went around, and he was burning his own ROMs for the slot machines with a backdoor in them.
And so when he serviced the machine, he would just put his ROM in, and he'd come back six months later and invoke the backdoor.
I like a lot of old hardware.
I restore cars, so I do a lot of 1960s muscle cars, cars and trucks.
Nice.
And...
Old computers, so I restore PDP-11s.
It's been my fascination and my special interest for the last six months or so, and I've built a number of those.
So basically what it is is I had built a number of PDP-11s, and so over the years I had acquired all these parts,
And I decided, well, let me build the best PDP-11 that I can.
And so it was kind of a quest to, just like you'd try to max out a PC, I tried to max out a PDP-11.
So it's got four megabytes of memory, which would be massive in the day.
And yeah, that's it there.
And it's got lots of blinking lights.
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