Event: Hull 2600 meetings, sanctioned by 2600 Magazine Date: First Friday of every month Time: 7pm onwards Place: The Old Gray Mare Pub, opposite Hull University Bring: Toys! |
Event: Hull 2600 meetings, sanctioned by 2600 Magazine Date: First Friday of every month Time: 7pm onwards Place: The Old Gray Mare Pub, opposite Hull University Bring: Toys! |
hackHull? arose from a group of hackers and phreaks in
the Hull area to become the organisers of one of the largest 2600 meets in the country.
Traders, techies, cryptos, sysops, crackers, coders, elites, potheads, anarchists,
programmers, subterraneacs, wannabes and hasbeens gather in the pub to exchange ideas, tricks,
learn new skills and generally have a laugh. We are especially geared towards the area of
Hull in Humberside (pronounced "East Yorkshire"), England, and its attendant
systems... Just to get an idea of what the scene is, take a look at the image on the right.
Usually the Hull 2600 meets end up in Spiders nightclub, a local indie/rock venue which has a student night on Fridays and is incredibly notorious for its cheap, and imaginative, drinks ;-) although past meets have ended up at various members' houses.
Occasionally there are impromptu hackHull? outings to
various places, usually at very short notice (i.e. half an hour!).
The Old Gray Mare on Cottingham Road, opposite Hull
University. It's usually really easy to spot us near the door. The OGM
does food as well as beer to put you on 'til you get to McDonalds to terrorise them... hehe...
A map will appear here soon once we get our act together and stop going looking for ex-MoD
installations at 2am... ;-)
Meetings almost always take place on the first Friday of every month at 7pm. The
dates for the next meetings are:
In the past, meetings have been held at The Old Grey Mare opposite the University (and
in Manchester for the Controversy meet in December 1996); but as of January 1997 the venue
became The Mission Pub, in the Old Town, for two months, then we returned to The
Old Grey Mare as the number of people attending the meets dropped off due to the
location.
| 04/01/2002 | Welcome to another year of hackHull? fun and antics... Ten of the hardcore crew brave
the weather and get over to the pub. January sales fever has struck, with bargains to
be found on (Prism II chipset) Wireless LAN cards and USB Digital Radio receivers.
Looks like it is going to be another fun year ahead for us. |
| 07/12/2001 | Dunno... |
| 02/11/2001 | Dunno... |
| 05/10/2001 | Dunno... |
| 07/09/2001 | Got to about fifteen people during the night, with a pair of new faces and a pair that
haven't graced a Hull meet for many a month (year). A fair number of boring
photos were taken. |
| 03/08/2001 | Pretty good turnout tonight, getting into double figures, with a few faces making a
welcome return to the land of the living. Did another "table 'o toys" shot,
along with a number of other photos. |
| 06/07/2001 | Quiet night with only a couple of people turning out. A PH.UK sweatshirt
got raffled off to one of the people that made it out - it was in London
just a few hours earlier that day (long story)... |
| 01/06/2001 | Didn't make it to tonight's meeting, but someone was kind enough to take
a few photos of the proceedings. |
| 04/05/2001 | Good turnout tonight, with some of the 'old-timers' turning out for the first time in
ages, along with some new(ish) attendees. Playing with Compaq iPAQs with massive
storage capacity. Quite a few photos of the night's
proceedings were taken at various points and places. |
| 06/04/2001 | Can't seem to remember enough to write down what happened... |
| 02/03/2001 | Just about squeezed into double figures tonight. Some Compaq iPAQ fascism going on with
everyone showing off their toys. A couple of photos
were also taken of the proceedings. |
| 02/02/2001 | Dunno. Someone tell me... |
| 05/01/2001 | Work stopped some people coming out, but we ended with a reasonable turnout for early
on in the new millenium. hackHull? was mentioned
in passing within a book called "A Complete Hacker's Handbook" by Dr-K. Had
a few Compaq iPAQs out to play with, one with Linux and one with Windows CE on. Might
end up doing some group merchandise and try and rally together some more attendees. A
couple of photos were also taken. |
| 01/12/2000 | Again, a fairly subdued night, with everyone preparing for the month's annual
festivities. Not a lot to report, but a good night was had by all. A couple of
photos were taken. |
| 03/11/2000 | Failed to make it over to Hull again tonight. From all accounts it was a fairly quiet
night, with only a couple of people making it out. A couple of
photos were taken though. |
| 06/10/2000 | Was away at a project lauch party tonight, but left everyone else to have a fun night.
Seems like attendees reached double figures, but don't have a report on anything
in particular happening or being discussed. A couple of
photos were taken though. |
| 01/09/2000 | Again a dozen or more people made their way to the meet tonight. 2 new faces (one from
a fair distance away - always cool!). Some of us had been to Bletchley Park earlier in
the day and brought some photos (which may make it online). Also some extremely secure
keys and lock from an armoured van ;o) - don't ask! A couple of
photos were also taken. |
| 04/08/2000 | A dozen people managed to make their way to the pub tonight. A fairly quiet night was
had by all. Not too much happening in the quiet summer months, just everyone taking it
easy. A couple of photos were taken of the night's
proceedings. |
| 07/07/2000 | Had about 17 people in and around during the night. Lot of catching up with some people
we hadn't seen in a while. Photos and film from a disused cinema that may be converted
into an Internet Data Centre. A few of us changing jobs in the near future (to get some
new big 'toys' to play with!). A couple of photos
were also taken. |
| 02/06/2000 | Into double figures again for turnout - not bad since we had a number missing in action
at the Linux Expo in London. Some Linux Expo 'warez' we're brought back by someone who
wasn't staying on for all the parties down south. Interesting discussions regarding the
sort of data that goes over the pager network. A couple of
photos were also taken. |
| 05/05/2000 | Great turnout tonight, with over 20 in attendance... A number of first timers, which
is always good. Discussions covered advances in Internet technologies, what toys people
had brought along, and what fun and new projects we should do (keep an eye out...). A
couple of photos were also taken. |
| 07/04/2000 | Around 12-15 people throughout the night. We've now got a new site,
www.hackleeds.com, now setup and online - for
our new monthly meeting in Leeds... About half a dozen of us decended on Spiders to spend
the rest of the night boozing. A couple of photos
were also taken. |
| 03/03/2000 | Around 12 people tonight. Conversation centering on setting up a regular meet in Leeds.
Looks like the concensus is that the third Friday of the month @ 7pm, Borders'
Café, Leeds City Centre will be the initial start location... Catch us there -
gives us a meet every 2 weeks or so. We'll follow the general 2600 policy on meets.
A couple of photos were taken. |
| 04/02/2000 | Pretty good turnout of around 15 people. Mixture of the same old suspects and some new
blood. Everyone in a playfull mood with a few interesting discussions taking place. A
couple of photos were taken. |
| 07/01/2000 | A fairly quiet affair, being the first meeting of the New Year. One or two in
attendance for the first time. A couple of photos
were taken. |
| 03/12/1999 | Turnout was good for the time of year, and the absolutely horrible weather - shame one
car bringing people broke down. Some toys were brought and 'played' with. A number of the
attendees managed to drag themselves to Spiders for a night on the tiles. A couple of
photos were taken of an iBook getting picked on. |
| 05/11/1999 | Another decent number showed up this month, especially considering it was Bonfire night
and we had a few 'missing in action' with prior commitments. We had some new people come
from out of town, just for the meet & that is alway cool. Toys were in attendance, and
discussions centred around end of year 'celebrations'. A couple of
photos were also taken. |
| 01/10/1999 | About 15 of us during the night, as people came and went at semi-regular intervals. Talk
about a possible end-of-year / start-of-year mini-conference -
Some feedback on this idea would be appreciated!
A couple photos were also taken before we retired to
Spiders for a night of drunken merriment. |
| 03/09/1999 | About 8 of us turned up this month. A few new toys and stories, like the computer on a
PIC which can run upto 32 lines of BASIC, and the modular computer on a SIMM. A couple of
photos were taken. |
| 06/08/1999 | Haven't found out what happened in Hull yet, since I was in Germany, but
photos of Chaos Communication Camp '99 are available. |
| 02/07/1999 | Not much of a turnout this month. Methinks everyone is in holiday spirits. We called it a
night quite early on. Don't think anything too much out of the ordinary happened.
Photos of the meet are available. |
| 04/06/1999 | About ten people turned up this month, with Syncom managing to identify the position of
the Pub with his new toy handheld GPS. Photos of the
meet are available. |
| 07/05/1999 | Flipping hack, what a big break in meeting minutes (and introduction of bad puns)... If
you're really bored you can find copies of photos
(the first we've ever published of us online) from this month's meeting. Oh My! What were
we thinking? |
| 02/04/1999 05/03/1999 05/02/1999 01/01/1999 |
Dunno what happened during the first few months of 1999 either. We're pretty sure that
all the meetings listed went ahead as planned. Our recollection is that much of the
regular crowd attended, so hopefully some light may be thrown on proceedings sometime in
the future, but we don't know if anyone will ever fill in these gaps in history. As
before, if anyone has any specific recollections or revelations, then please let us know. |
| --/--/1998 | Dunno what happened to 1998. If anyone has any specific recollections or revelations,
then please let us know. |
| 05/12/1997 | This meeting only saw a small group of die-hards attending, with many other spread back
around the country during the festive season. Decided it was time that we got off our
respective arses and went and did something fun again. Reports will be forthcoming once
the fingers get pulled out... |
| 07/11/1997 | This meeting did happen, and I'll need reminding as to what actually transpired, so this
bit will be enlarged at a later date. (P.S. Don't bother watching this space, I doubt
it'll be worth it!) |
| 03/10/1997 | This meeting had sixteen attendees. We're finally on the
2600 meets page. Celebrate! Drink!
We discussed another Basic Stamp 2 application - the chip will easily generate all the
red/blue/DTMF tones... The Apple 'handbag' computer, and its handwriting recognition
software. Beating the University of Hull Internet
censorship - they take all the well known H/P/A/V/C sites, MUDs, MUCKs, MUGs, talkers and
IRC servers off the DNS, and hid nslookup. The possibilities of reviving a PDP11 computer
a member has in storage. The prison service has its own (British Telecom supplied) phone
card system. We also discovered that this pub doesn't like laserpointers either, and
there are never enough mains sockets to recharge all the laptops and mobile phones. |
| 05/09/1997 | This meeting had ten of us surrounding a table with a STAMP2 controlled toy car wizzing
around on the surface, having been programmed on the spot from one of the laptops.
Playing with holding a UV lamp up to a MicroSoft
Licence Certificate (very interesting - you try it! We're bound to write up a report on
it sometime...) As per bloody usual, most of us ended up in Spiders drinking
stupid amounts of their very cheap booze! |
| 01/08/1997 | This month saw most of us spread around the country, either working or on holiday, but we
did manage to send some 'representatives' to HiP '97,
in Holland, for some fun (we can't tell you what, coz we don't know exactly who is
reading this page, hahaha - photo gallery now online!)... |
| 04/07/1997 | This month's meeting never happened, as far as we know, because everyone was off having
summer fun around the place, and I went out drinking instead :o) |
| 06/06/1997 02/05/1997 04/04/1997 |
These meetings are lost in our memory of incredible alcohol intake, so we need some
reminding of what might have happened before we pass on any invaluable information as to
what did go on! We know at one of them some guy, Lifeguard, from the
CCC (Chaos Computer Club) turned up, since he was over
from Germany, living in Newcastle, at the time. Yup that's right, he drove down from (and
back to) Newcastle that night, just for the meeting - now wasn't that stoopid (erm, don't
you mean 'really nice' - ed.) Hope you enjoyed it mate. |
| 07/03/1997 | This meeting ended up with us in Spiders getting incredibly wasted and we saw a
few new faces arrive. Much discussion was done and
McDonalds practically threw us out (hey, did you know you're not allowed to
take photos of McDonalds staff?). |
| 07/02/1997 | This meeting saw a few new faces, lots of toys, and a whole bunch of trash. Around 15
people turned up... |
| 03/01/1997 | Well, some people turned up, but the University lot may not have been back from their
Christmas holiday by then. |
| 06/12/1996 | This meeting was slightly different; hackHull? were
in Manchester, in smaller numbers than expected, for the
Controversy '96 hackers party.
We got to chat with Emmanuel Goldstein (of 2600
Magazine), go trashing, and totally win at the raffle (as noted in Harlequin's
report of the event). There
was, however, a strong feeling of isolation from the organisers (Agents of a Hostile
Power), who kept themselves locked away in the back room, happily sniffing all the
passwords off the network. The only 'problem' really was ITX and friends deleting Win95
to put Linux on a machine... and taking the machine
apart... Never mind. Some sites were hacked, some beer was drunk, and a whole bunch of
trash in BT bags was recovered... |
| 31/05/1996 | This was probably the most sucessful meet to date, which started at 7pm, and was still
going (to some degree) at 4am the next morning; by which time it had spread into the
streets and houses of Hull, and even went as far as face painting... kinda ;-) As I
recall there were around 30 or 40 people there... but I was pretty much shitfaced at the
time... |
