Commodore 64 Confuses Austrian Police

toomanyairmiles writes, "It seems that Wolfgang Priklopil, the communications technician who kidnapped Austrian pre-teen Natascha Kampusch, relied on a Commodore 64 as his primary machine. Interestingly this is presenting some problems to the Austrian computer forensics people. Major General Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau told reporters it would 'complicate investigators' efforts' and would be difficult to transfer the files to modern computers 'without loss.' Could this be the latest in the criminal world's security strategy? Can we expect to see Spectrums, Archimedes, and Atari STs turning up in police investigations soon?"

Comments

The Charge?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we expect to see Spectrums, Archimedes, and Atari STs turning up in police investigations soon?

What are they going to charge them with? Living in the stone age?

Re:The Charge?

[Anonymous Coward]

This person was found to be connected to the terrorist Junis, a friend of Jon Katz. No doubt he is pirating movies and watching them on his computer.

Even Better

[coop247]

I also hear they are having trouble getting information from his IBM typewriter. Apparently he used White Out to clear the data.

Simple answer

[lostngone]

We must ban all Commodores, to save the children of course. Think of the children!

Only on slashdot...

[f97tosc]

does the story about a girl kept in a dungeon for eight years revolve around the kidnapper's computer. Tor

Arial???

[srh2o]

Of course they'd lose information. Haven't you seen how bad Arial screws up ASCII porn... Uh Nevermind

Re:Commodore 64 has an RS-232 interface.

[psoplayer]

Now see? All they had to do was post the question on slashdot as how to connect a C64 to modern machines and they could have had the files off in a jiffy. But NO... they just had to try to figure it out on their own.

Re:Question

[soft_guy]

The guy kidnapped a little girl and kept her for 8 years. He's obviously a nut case. I don't think you can back his choice to use a Commodore 64 with reason.

On Slashdot, we don't think he's crazy for hideous crimes. We think he is crazy for using an old computer.

Re:Commodore 64 has an RS-232 interface.

[iocat]

Dude, they're in EUROPE. Someone just needs to head for the University, find the demo party, pry Dieter away from his Amiga and be like "oh qiuck, we need the data from these floppies... yes, if you want to make a mod so the data all prints out along a sin-wave line while the SID chip kicks out the collected works of David Hasselhof, that's fine... oh my, you can make the text appear on shiny spheres? So much the better!"