Golly! I remember that movie, but IIRC, it was part of an afternoon TV serial.
I remember the scene where the sleepy cop has the phone up to his ear backwards,
thereby thwarting the bad guy's attempt to dispense with him.
That "Number 5 is Alive" is was a sequel to a different movie, one that my kids
liked pretty well, as it was about a robot and its builder.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
Gives a whole new meaning to "reach out and
touch someone".
That reminds of of that movie from years back: "Number 5 is Alive;" I
think that was the correct title. In the movie, someone was
electrocuting people by sending a high-voltage/current spike through
the telephone network to their telephones. This was back before
electronic switching systems were in wide-spread use. The movie
showed lots of banks of the old step-by-step switches with all of the
selectors and connctors moving about. It was really neat to see all
of that equipment in motion; they showed how calls were, supposedly,
traced.
Its a shame that that AT&T insisted on scrapping all of those old bits
of equipment; when I worked there back in the mid 1980s, in a
department that did central office planning and was still working with
that old switching equipment, I was told that I couldn't purchase, or
otherwise obtain, any of it, that the company's policy was to scrap
it. :-(
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