Mike and Serge pay all my bills and my trailer payment. Hows Isabella?

For $25K, I'd fly my programmer in to the client's office or NOC the very next day and have it installed by hand. Not tell them to come back in 100 days.

... But that's just what I would do for my clients. :)

Yeah had a Trash-80 Model I tricked up with 64K in the keyboard, true decenders in text, clocked up to 5.33 MHz (from 1.6 MHz) with an additional 32K in the E/I so I could bankswitch or use it as a print spooler running an LNW-80 disk controller with 4 8 inch Shugarts and 4 5.25 inch 360k floppies for more than 3 MB of online floppy storage (this was 1980 - 81) and a Votrax SE-01 voice synthesizer chip on the E/I port and running CP/M 2.2... Man that machine was a blast to hack around with... I loved Z80 assembler! Then the 8086 and 8088 came along and screwed it all up for everyone... Damn Intel crap...

Um, yeah...we get the idea. Nothing like listening to fossils reminisce.

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For $25++ we sit in our office and get things set up. BTW, when you open a software biz let me know............

Ben,

your def. an old timer :)

My dad and older brother loved the coco and the 6809 chip in it. We mostly had a cassete tape in it. My older brother wrote like a centipede game and a few others for it. using old peek and poke - Assembly routines.

he got a couple of games published in coco mags and got like 50 or 100.00 back then :)

One day my wife said "I wish I could figure out what is so fascinating about computers, maybe I should get one and see... " The next day I traded an Icom 2AT that I had tricked up to the police band for another Trash-80 and cane home with it and said "surprise!".... I thought she was going to hit me with the monitor... That becaome my 4th Model I... along with the T1000, 2 Commodore 64s and a Vic/20... that bedroom was HOT!

Just remember, this 'fossil' is the guy that's written the best damn 2257 compliance software on the market... and soon to get even better with a few tricks we have up our sleeves...

I didnt know the Bakersfield crew... only the SLMR Canadians. The doors were back then was scripts are to this business. And as I recall there were some hacks dropping to dos from Doorway as well.

Chuck Foresburg and Ward Christiansen were 2 very smart guys. You have to wonder what kind of brain it takes to develop the 2 major modem protocols and I think Ive seen Zmodem still being commerically used to this day.

Excal was a great idea.... they just never did finish developing it it and righfully so as I recall the last plug in I bought for it was an extension to jump out on the web and port the first rev of html code back thru the BBS.

I recall using DBridge for a while to toss some fido and QWK packets and I think it was supposed to port uuci/uuco packets over the the message base format.

I ended up using Ed Hopper out of Plano,Texas and his utility to move those newsgroups and net mail around. Robert Vostreys was a good friend of mine so he were constanly refining the abilities of QWK packets.

I guess RSS feeds on message boards are as close as we will ever get to an offline mail reader again.

Didn't do too much with the Co-Co... but the MC-10 was a cunning little bugger... :-)

250........

wow woj you are fucking unhuman

Damn.......

You sit in the office for over three months? Damned impressive! :sleep

... Btw, my software biz is four years old now, Brad. And now you know. And knowing is half the battle. GI Joe! :)

Ive used a 'fossil' driver a few times to work with the Fido network.
BTW Ben it was nice meeting you in San Diego. Good luck with your 2257 ware.

And to think I came up with my own solution...it's not rocket surgery y'know.

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you arent too far off the mark

Duke

don't give him ideas, I'm just good at what I do...

Shit happens, and everyone usually gets a turn. Each of the stats programs has its strengths and weaknesses and eventually the weaknesses tend to come to light. I didn't see what was on the original post with the data that was listed, but if it was Brads company info and not a clients, due to the setup of the server, then so long as each of the clients gets an email from Greg or Brad tonight reiterating that they should make sure their own setups are protected, it seems that there shouldn't be any client issues.

Just some egg on ES.

Hey Gonzo! Likewise bud! Have a beer on me!

greg's professional response is not what i'm used to seeing, and he rocks! he's a diplomat among reps, for sure!

wow
that's the biggest ownage in a while
i feel sorry for all the affiliates whole will be spammed by anyone who downloaded all the data
let alone the personal information

didn't see the acutal data.
where all the siccash affilates socal security numbers and names put out in public?

So what kind of data was compromised? I always miss out on the drama.
WG

from what I've been told: everything
from personal information to their epoch login data

Epoch logins? So some rogue webmaster could login and cancel all their members for example? This is a huge security breech in that case.

WG

Karma can be a bitch...

On a side note Brad keeps mentioning how ES is booked for installs for months, yet i've yet to come across any programs using it (and I do check lots of programs)

Hope he learned his lesson...

what programs have you "built"?

I'd bet that was the first thing they changed lol

lets hope so

It's going to take me forever to read this thread. :(

man I missed a fucking sig spot why don't you fuckers make your drama GMT?

Were there many member emails in there?

Classy posts by Greg, John (NATS) and KK :)

Oh my, I knew this was going to come sooner or later :disgust

I told both you Brad and Greg about this very issue 7 months ago and a reminder 6 months ago since the issue itself wasn't fixed, only the few exemples I showed were taken care of.

Do you have extremely lazy and incompetent techs or a manager who can't delegate?

pretty much every member since 10-04

ooohhh shit :helpme

i see.

hrmmm

Not fully correct, it was every WTS transaction since 10-04. Meaning a lot of dupes and a lot of returned checks also.

The dump displayed was WTS, and nothing else.

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