[tecleandor]

Funny that I didn't notice until very recently that the computer operator was Penn Jillette, the magician!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OYNMO_mNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYE2amC9vMY

[anjel]

More than magicians, Penn Gillette was in the jacket scene. Anyone remember existing into his bbs from the late 1980s?

[jasomill]

He also wrote a column for PC/Computing magazine in the early '90s.

[js2]

Penn and Teller's Lab Scam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084737