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This hub documents the Atari 400 SysOp-initiated-dial-out-BBS (WPA 1981): hardware, wiring, operator method, and preserved artifacts. It links to neutral, hardware-first notes and select thematic studies derived from the archive. Programmed in Atari's Basic computing language an unprecedented dial-out, BBS-based marketplace prototype (WPA) operated as a simulator with displayed 15,700 members online (simulation). Sessions from the Atari 400 dial-out were monitored and leaked resulting a public pop-culture echo. The technologies, contemporaries, and practices of the era not only allowed it — they made it inevitable.
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Back to the FUture II ↔ WPA (1981): “You’re Fired / Terminated” as a translation of the faked-death motif
A focused comparison between the videophone termination sequence in Back to the Future Part II and the SysOp-target faked-death closer used in the 1981 WPA daily dialogs—two executions of the same structural ending.