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Silver Spoons - Season 1, Episode 7, "The Great Computer Caper" (1982)

In this episode Ricky, encouraged by a reporter from the school newspaper, hacks into a military computer and accesses plans for a new fighter plane. Soon after the FBI come after him and Ricky and his new friend flee.

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Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer

Ricky uses his Dad's Coco to run a code cracking algorithm and break into a military computer.

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The only concern here is whether the compute power of the Coco is sufficient to break the code.

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