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Obsolyte - Obsolete and Elyte!

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Back in the "good old days", when most of us hackers only had Commodore 64's or Atari 1200's, we dreamed of having high-end workstations. These were the coolest of the cool - some even had Graphical Interfaces, but even if they didn't, they had networking - and a connection to other systems. Often, we'd find a dial-up for a university or corporation, and with our pathetic 300 baud modems, connect to a system and see on the screen:

And we'd be in heaven! We're hacking a UNIX machine! (although, we encountered more VMS machines in those days). I'd fantasize about one day owning one of these mysterious boxes that actually ran UNIX or VMS. Back then, I'd never even seen that type of computer in real-life, all I'd ever known was my C64 and what you could find for sale in an issue of BYTE magazine. Popular Science showed huge boxes (mainframes), and I could only imagine what these things were.

All these machines, in fact, anything higher-end than a home machine was "Elyte". Elite was spelled many ways through the popular BBS's of the time, but the most common replaced the "i" with the "y". This was probably done because most people on BBS's couldn't spell to save their lives (I still can't spell!) - hey, we were all 13 years old at the time! Some other spellings include 3LyT3, eLyTe, etc., etc. And hey, if you had a 1200 baud modem back then, you were "K-Rad Elyte" and could get those "0-0day Warez", and post 'em!