Satellite Piracy 1998

[BAM]

Mirimark, I'm sure you had one of these too back in 1998 with an H card Zapulator!
And yeah thats a 486 running the card Emulator that firewalled me from Dave's black sunday ECM.

The most famous ECM incident was the Black Sunday attack launched against tampered DirecTV "H" on 3 January 21, 2001 and intended to destroy the cards by overwriting a non-erasable part of the cards internal memory in order to lock the processor into an endless loop.

[deepthroat]

wow, did I just stumble into an open doorway to an alternate galaxy or something?

[guydesavoy]

I'm not familiar with the ECM Incident, although I did have en equaliser like that back in 1988

[Road Runner]

Are those 8-track boxes (blue and yellow) under the TV in the second photo?

RR.

[deepthroat]

No, actually those appear to be blank VHS boxes laying on their back so they fit into the space.