Posted on 09/05/2006 8:14:55 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
POLICE combing through the house where Natascha Kampusch was held captive for more than eight years have discovered her captor, a communications technician, used an obsolete computer.
Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau said kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil relied exclusively on a Commodore 64 computer - a model popular in the 1980s but now considered an antique.
Lang told reporters the outmoded computer would complicate investigators’ efforts to transfer files for closer examination later, saying it would be difficult "to transmit the data to a modern computer without loss".
Priklopil killed himself by jumping in front of a train within hours of Kampusch’s escape on August 23.
Police have been digging pits and using long probes to poke around the property in suburban Strasshof, northeast of Vienna, to ensure the house and garden do not conceal any other secret underground cells like the one beneath the garage where Kampusch often was confined.
Natascha’s media representative said the 18-year-old had agreed to a televised interview this week, giving Austrians their first glimpse of the young woman whose nightmare has fascinated the nation.
Natascha has been besieged by hundreds of requests for interviews since she bolted to freedom two weeks ago, but so far she has agreed to grant only three: the one to ORF, another to the mass-circulation daily Kronen Zeitung, and a third to the weekly magazine News.
Public broadcaster ORF will air its interview tomorrow evening.
Media experts predicted record ratings. But ordinary Austrians hoping for a glimpse of Natascha were likely to be disappointed.
Organisers said she would appear on TV behind a screen in silhouette or, at most, in camera angles taken from behind or over her shoulder to respect her privacy.
"It’s entirely up to her to decide whether to show her face," said Christoph Feurstein, the ORF journalist doing the interview.
So far, a public hungry for details has been shown only photos taken before her kidnapping at age 10 in March 1998, or computer-generated likenesses of what she supposedly looks like now.
ORF said it would not ask Natascha anything "intimate," steering clear of questions about whether her captor sexually abused her.
Maybe John titor would be interested in it.
...EU calls for "Computer Upgrade for Hostage Takers" program, new tax to pay for it..."New computers not just for those who happen to obey the law" says rep
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Then I could play the original "Pirates!"
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I loved my Commodore 64 and the toys I got with it.
Should I feel guilty that I admire him for that?
Obsolete? Hell, that's what I'm using as a server in my office.
There are C-64 emulators available. Just export the original disk contents as flat files and fire up the emulation sw.
I'm running Windows 98SE (Server Edition)
Same here - except I started on an Atari 400 (with that friggen membrane keyboard). We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was a kid, so I had to settle for the 400. Later, I bought an 800XL myself after I got a job. Never had the privilege of owning an ST.
Now I have my own computer software business - and my fingerprints are nearly worn off from the Atari 400 keyboard.
I hope you are kidding.... (that's not what SE stands for).
Wow. You had one of the NEW Atari's! Anyone want to buy a working 400 & 800?
LOL!!!
Although sometimes I look around and think maybe he had some good warnings about what we eat and the kind of government we let rule...
I was about to say there's at least 1000 people on the internet that could provide expertise in a hot second.
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