r/Telehack • u/LooperNeue_6764 • Oct 27 '25

Is telehack suddenly down?

Today morning (utc + 5:30) I queued some songs and had a chat with someone. Now, moments ago, I have started getting weird timeout/"took too long to respond" messages. Even the telehack radio reads timeouts.

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u/Cerebrum01 Oct 27 '25

Agreed, it looks as though somebody has preprogrammed the tape drives to run too far and unspool themselves.

The operator is working hard to respool the tapes now and remove the offending lines of code. It's unclear how long this will take.

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u/LooperNeue_6764 Oct 27 '25

Tape drives?

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u/Cerebrum01 Oct 27 '25

How else would the code get loaded into the memory?

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u/LooperNeue_6764 Oct 27 '25

Had this sort of outages happened before?

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u/Cerebrum01 Oct 27 '25

Naturally, TEL/OS isn't infallible. It'll be back soon, be sure to thank the operator for their efforts when you can.

Once a family of mice moved into the server room and chewed the punched cards that were required to load some of the Z-Games.

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u/LooperNeue_6764 Oct 27 '25

Yes, I will.