Coincidence between the start spacecraft scene in Prometheus and 60s phreaking

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• $toast0 8 months ago

  Any sort of system where you have an band limited audio channel and need signalling is going to end up using tones. DTMF is a lot more robust, but single frequencies work too. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quindar_tones

• $pmdulaney 8 months ago

  Oooooh... so that's why that hacker magazine is called 2600. I honestly didn't know.

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  • $readyplayernull 8 months ago

    Atari 2600?

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    • $pmdulaney 8 months ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly