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Title ..: Editorial
Author .: The Editors
Date ...: 2025-10-31
Section : Blog
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# Editorial

A reader asked us what "oldskool" means, exactly. Fair question.

It does not mean old. It means a *posture*: curiosity without permission,
craft
under constraint, and the conviction that you should understand the machine
all
the way down. The people who hand-tracked a four-channel module and the
people
auditing a kernel driver today are running the same firmware in their heads.

This issue is our Halloween number, so we lean spooky: the lost art of the
blue
box, and a primer on PETSCII for anyone who wants to draw with bones. Light
a
candle next to the monitor.

                                              -- the editors


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