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INTERESTING THINGS TO DO ON A Dfc.C-20
by The Knights Of Shadow
C iis Seen on the lute Sherwood Yores l J [ )
The? first thing you want, to do when you
are receive ns carrier from a DEC system is
to find out the format of login names. Von
ran do this by Looking tit who is on the
.ystem, {DEG? 6 s ( the ' exec ā level prompt}
YOLā> SY:}: sv is Short for SYS TAT and shows
you t.he system status. You should be able
to see the format of login names. A SYSTAT
usually comes: up in tills form: Job, Line,
Program, User. The JOB number is not
important unless you want- to log them off
later. Line is u number that is used to
commun i eat e with t.he user. These are both
two or three digit numbers. Program tel }a
whist program they are rnnn j. ng under , I f i t
says. 'EKEO 3 they urea 1 1 doing anything at
ull. User is the username they are logged
in under. You can copy the format, und
hack yourself out u working code. Login
format is as such; {DPC> '3 Yl>lT> login user-
name password}. Username is the username
in the format, you saw above in the SYNTAX -
After yon hit the space of ter your
Username, the system will stop echoing
characters back to your screen. This is^
the pus Sword yon a re typing in. Remember ,
peop I e of ten uo e t hoi r name , thei r dog 3 s
name , the name of a favor i t e oha ract er i n a
book or something like this, A few clever
people have it set to a key cluster (qwertv
er nsdfg), PW 3 & can be L from 1 to E3
characters long, anything after that is
ignored.
Let 3 ft assume you go t in . It wou Id bs
jj ice to have a little help wouldnāt, it?
Just type a ? or t.he word HELP r and you'll
get 3 w-hol e list of top ics . 5 ume handy
characters for you to know wou I d be the
control keys, backspace on a DEC 20 is rub
wh ich is 555 on your ASU I 1 chart . On the
DEC -10 it is Cntrl-U- To abort a long
listing; or a program, Cntrl-C works fine.
Use Cntrl-0 to stop long output to the
terminal. This j.s handy when playing a
game, but you don't want to Cntri-C out.
Cntrl-T gives you the iisse. Cntrl-lJ will
ki ] 1. the whole line you are typing at the
moment. You may accidental iy run a program
where the only way out as" a Cntrl X, so
keep thut in reserve. Cntrl-S to stop
listing, Cntrl -Q to continue on both
systems,
Ts your terminal having trouble? Like it
pauses f or no reason , or it doesn ' t
backspace light? This is because both
systems support many terminals, and you
haven ā t told i t what yours is ye t , You ure
us i ng a VTOS ( i sn f t t hat f unny? I thought
I had an Apple}, so you need to tell it you
3 YQU> information
tarā also i works . Thi &
t orm i nu 1 is set up us .
ā DEO assorted garbage, then the 3 Y01i> set.
ter vtOb! This sets your terminal type to
VT05 .
are one, I DEO
term! na 1 } 11 1 nfo
shows you whut your
2-41
how I et 3 ft see wise t is i n the nceouri t
( he re a f te r ubbrev rat ed acc t . ) that you have
hacked onto. MH is short for directory,
it s hows you wbaf. the user of the code has
saved to the disk. There should bo a
format like this; xxxxx.ooo xxxwx is 1 he
file naiue, front l to 20 characters long
ooo is the file t ype , one of; EXE, TXT,
D AT , BAS r TMD an rt a few o t-hers that n re
system dependant. EXE is a comp i led
program thut can he run {just by typing its
n ame at t he 3 } . TXT is a text file, wh l eh
you can see by typing ''type xxxxx.TXT". Do
not try ''type xxxxx.EXE . This may make
yonr tenmi na 1 do a t range thi ngs and will
toll you absolutely nothing. DAT is data
they beve saved. DAS is a basic program,
you can have i t t yped ou t for you . CMT) i s
a commend type file, u little too
complicated te go into here, Trv ''toko
xxxxx. CKD M .
&y the way, there are other users out
t here who may have f i I es you can us e ( gee ,
why else am T here?), Type "Dili < * - * > w on
a DEC 20 Or J 'DIH [*,*]ā' on a DFC-LO. * is'
a wi idcarrt, and wi 1 ] allow you to access*
the files on other accounts if the user has
it set for public Access. If it. 'isnāt, set
for public access, then you won' t see it.
TO run that program: {DEO 3/YGU > username
file name}, tfsernante is the directory you
saw the file listed under, and file name
was what else but the file name?
Remember you said (at the very start)
'"SY" which showed the other users on t.he
system? Well, you can talk to them, or at
least send a message to anyone you see
listed in a SYbTAT , You can do Ini s by :
{ DEC > t he user list { from yea r a yst a t ) YOU >
talk username {DEU-vlD) send username
( DEG 'Id! } , Tu.i k al lews you and t hem
insed-i Eit e transmission of whatever you/they
type to he sent to t3lc other. bend only
allows you one message to be sent, and only
after you hit Creturn>, With send, they
- i 11 send buck to you, with talk you can
jus t keep go ing . By the way , you may be
noticing with the talk command that what
you type is still acted upon hy the parser
ā¢{control program}. To avoid the Constant
error messages type either: [YOU.i ; your
message YOU> rem your message}- The
semi colon tells the parser that what
follows is just a comment. Hem is short
for 'remark 3 and ignores you from then on
until you type u Cntrl-Z or Cntrl--C, at
which point it puts you hack in the exec
mode. To break the connection from a talk
command type- "break 3 '.
If you happen to have privs, you csfi do
all sorts of things, first of all, you
have to activate those privs . ā'Enableā
g i ves you a $ prompt. , and a 1 ] oĀ«s you to do
anything to any other directory thut you
can do with your own. To create a hew
account, using your privs, just type "build
usernameā'. If the username is old, you can
{ 1 1 on { In re. \lot\ pay,* ā 2
bunking from your terminalā a look at PRONTO
r -i * j . . bjr Orson Buggy . telling
Election ic banking i;~rv less via personal
computer and modem are springing up uk
various banks try to jump" on the
information age bandwagon. This month 2600
takes a look at one of the older and more
varied services available in the New York
City area.
the prospective manager how he can
foa^un^
s
le
basically
few rai nor
:v ?
Chemical Bunk's PRONTO pi
^a il ub le
. , - - provides a host of
banking services uii available for dialing
Un with your personal computer and Htodem.
Alter signing on with your account you can
make balance inquiries, transfer funds
between accounts, use the bank's computer
to k&ep track oi your checkbook and budget,
pay bills to selected merchants, and send
electronic mail to other subscribers. All
this costs twelve bucks per month, and you
Set a checking account and cash machine
card thrown m too.
Naturally, PRONTO includes numerous
security features to make sure that only
those authorised to do so can pluy w'*h the
First of all, you can't call up
Pr-TOh TO with just any dumb terĀ»inul. : You
must he using their special software. This
Etewis that, you ean't even subscribe unless
yĀ°uc computer is one of the- popular series
that they support (Apple ITT, Atari,
bommodore 64, Compaq, und IBM compatible).
On top oi that, th^ro a s your jpoi^aoriQl
password tha'. you have to fork over each
time you connect. Th a sounds good enough
to keep the average roub 1 emak > ng hacker
, ou . their hair , hut ia by no weans
ou 1 1 c tp roo . . if someone eavesd roppod on a
PRONTO conversation he or she Could easily
pick up the codes needed to get into that
account , since they 1 re probao Jy the same
ones for each session (unless, of course,
the caves drpppcc has changed the password
lately)-, 0 Ā£ course , this hypothetical
,. woul d need their own copy of
PRONTO softwares; Rat thut would not be
āuch of an imped itsent to many hackers .
Otl 6 bank off iccr , when uiuson t eif w i th
this argument, countered with, "But there's
really nothing an intruder Could do with
your- account even if they did manage to
sign on to it somehow, They could get
transferring money between
bet they can't take uny out
" PRONTO allows you to pay
only to a selected list of
That* h-us ovrfT" m Of) ctunpan i f:Fi ots
it, including other hanks where you might
wont, to wake loan or Credit card jjayaents ,
insurance
their jollies
your acoo uni s ,
for themselves,
bills, but
ri ā . . ā uaynen
a ll Of the urea utilities.
;pa
Lhu
apers .
and
l
t bill you
compan i es , severe I cl ub s , newsj
other kinds of businesses tl
every moo th . It the re 1 a someone yo u. want
t Ā° pay that s not on the list, you can a_sk
for them to ho included. Ghccai ca I claims
this is a big security advantage over other
banks .home services t since you can only
send money to someone on their pro approved
lists. Just in case the unthinkable should
the customer is liable for the
$id of a fraudulent electronic
transaction, just like in the
card and cash machine KorvicfiS.
. JP* that ense, the customer isay be
liabje for the first $btllJ (the Hi Ilk i mum 1 if
he or she fails to notify the bank within
" hro days yf ioairij? the bunk nard
COdt"ā *
6 he in i ca 1 ul so provi dcs
cu 1 J ed 1 MiONTO (Sus incs s
Imppert,
f i rs t
bank l n g
cr erl ] t
Gncc pt
o r access
another service
Banker. Like
PRONTO , i+ has slick promotional material
get complete Control over "his
accounts. The selling style is
different, but it appears to be
the same service except with a
changes for business customers.
The WAV the money actually gets
transferred when you pay your bills is also
interesting ā ā as of March when Chemical
received a PRONTO re^ue^l for s payment
somewhere, some clerk in New Jersey would
actually write a check out, shove it' in np
envelope, and mail it off. J don 1 t know
whether they've modern i.ged this nt all, hut
they were planning to. Chemical also
speaks of future expansions to PRONTO, such
as news, homo shopping, and stock quotes.
In the bud old days, meat honk
transact tons needed a human being's
signature to be processed. Electronic
banking services replace the handwritten
signature with a digital identification.
The security is fairly good when it comes
to a handheld bunk card, suit oh Jo for
sticking into cosh machines wherever vou
go, which otherwise stays in your pocket,
where no one else should huve any access.
But. the heme banking services take this one
step further rr the latest "signature" la
merely u computer identification code,
which, like a commonā carrier access code or
credit, card number* is only secure while no
0)10 else know's about it.
Citi baok 1 s
e, ignat urc i s
first level
copy of tho
recognition of your digital
rather disappointing. Their
of security Is the individual
software they give you, which
has an embedded identification in it. The
next One is the number printed on your bunk
machine card, thut they give you (shades of
the ATT Culling card blunders [see page
J -H I ) , The last one is the sane 1 ptrs c?na 1
identification Ooda' r (PIC), a four to six
digit. password, that is magnet icully
encoded on your banking card and must be
typed in whenever you use their cash
machines. This puts u lot of strain on the
PiC. since its disclosure would comproiui s u
both your cash machine and home bunking
account s , Cl tibon k warns you i n t.hei r
literature io inf ora thorn immediately if,
among other things, your banking software
is lost or stolen". Either they don't
think Copying of that software is a threat
df they have {ha ha) copy protected it.
By the way, one Of the other home banking
services is called EXCEL from Manufacturers
Ekinover (u.k.a. Manny Runny} . The only one
I know
only
cl
2-4:
uteri t in ttnd there
because of the elect roni c mui 1
included in the monthly fee. You would
nuvo to he the kind of person who write# It
lot of monthly checks or has a difficult
time making it out to the nearest cash
machine in order to benefit from those
services.
[Citi bank ā S bank-hy phono nyn t em is
co 1 led RJ.HECJ 1 AOOESS . Wo tried out this
one using a simulation disk which we
ordered, for iree through an ROO number.
The people there Were very happy to send us
u domo-f loppy for an IBM Compat i b 1 e . This
system ruxa several other services including
Bow Jones. |
2600 subscribers who have home bunking
services in. their area are invited to write
back und tel 1 us whu t ' s going on i n your
home town. Any of your personal oxpori-
cnces (good or bad) with these services
wou E d al so h e we Lcome .
.V.u'a ^lHi P r-
Somewhere in the federa I but oauci aey , a clerk has made a 22
bill Lon error that will take an act of Congress to correct.
When Congress was scurrying around last year for ways to
reduce the federal deficit, a natural target was the 3 percent
excise lax on Ictcphorjc service, ivtiich was due 10 expire 0! ihe
end of E9S-5. The lawmakers voted to extend: the Ljln through
]yy?. !3uL after the law containing. the telephone tax and
hundreds of other tax previsions was signed by Preside nt
Reagan , somebody noticed that 1 9k5 had been deleted titan the
I- st Of years to which the telephone levy applies.
1 ha1 oversight is being rectified in something ealled the
" L'cchnkxd Corrections .Act of I2R5." Such corrections have
become commonplace in recent years because Congress has
Iwen changing Lhe laws with regularity. The I9h4 law that the
IbfLS hi II is correcting was so voluminous that 1 he staff of the
J oint Committee on T fixation took 1 ,257 pages to explain.
ITT Crackdown
3 riFji Hh li i'i'b \
An 11 ' L' Corp. task force, i he F Ftl , a nd oilie i law enforcement
agencies are engaged in a major crackdown on illegal users of
the ITT Longer Distance telephone service. That service is
provided to residential and business customers in 1 13 major
metropolitan areas, To place a cs.il on the system, customers
dial a special ntxess number. Lhen the plume number (hey want
to call, and finally their ā”uthoriHitson code, which bills the call
to 1 he m stumer's iiccou nt .
In one case, an ITS I investigation led ro tlic indictment of a
former ITT employee who was charged willl selling l.TTs
authorization codes. Lhe codes were sold to a New JciVty
company, which used them i n a nationwide campaign to sell il s
products 1 hioujih its large telephone sales lore;.
GTE Sprint Cheats Customers
\ bik .ā-Har-I Ā«: i
GTE cionnl has boen sired fm allegedly overcharging Its
customers millions of do I lari OP call* made during
'I ha nksgmng and Christmas.
J he class acLlon suit was filed in Superior Court by the Los
A ngcJcs -based Center for Law in the Public EsUeiCst- A
complaint was also sent to the California Public Uti lilies
Commission.
lhe suit ft lieges the company charged regular daytime rates
from >1 am to 5 pm on November 22, Lf$4 and December 25,
I 9i?4 instead of tlsc lower - cvcni ng Tates which iL advertised .
The overcharges were cstiiWtcd at $2 milliiitt to S4 million.
Listening In On Cellular Phones
I, S A TiĀ»Liy
Car-phone owners, beware. For S350, an eavesdropper can
snoop on your cellular-radio conversations! ItY random and
basically anonymous, hut it's snooping nonetheless. "Very
simply, iis. long as fildio waves me being transmitted, we can
listen in on them,ā said a Vienna,, Virginia electronics salesman
who sells cellular-radio scanners made by Indianapolis bused
Regency Electronics.
More Phone Fraud
3 mil V MipOiilK
Crackers in at least th ree major cities 'nave been blamed tor a
2-43
SWLfflXf phone bill that was senL to a Californian man whusi;
siolien credit Old number was apparently posicd on a T
underground network of eompiuer RBfi's. (.HTicmls witla GTE-.-
Sprint Comnnumiul ions Cos p , told the Associated Iāress tl*ai
computer vandals in At lanta. Raltimorc , and New York used
the Sprint number of Robert BoCek to charge more than
250.00!) minutes of calls in two months Sprint spokesman
Mite Furtney said "an investigation is underway" with law
enforcement officia Is irt the th i cc East Coast cities and ul least
seven others, Rooek's, m:d-L>xember bill rail 222 pages, listed
1 7,T 1 1 calls tola ling 25b,ffl7 minutes, and coil inj_; S3 5 ,5fi2,22 ,
not CO util Ling So S3. 1 47 āvolume divenunt 7'j Computer vandals,
chi' Whiit il they used a ear to drive so the payphone, are they
tar thieves? Aren'l computer vandals people who wreck
computers'?]
Computers Monitor Truckers
I'm 'A'.'.' i '-j iiy i Vri rr.ii
Leprino E-hods Company of Denver has outfitted il s cntiic
trucking Reel with portable computers that hook up to sensors
in a truck Y engine and transmission. The devices, gather
d etui led informal ion 4i bout a truck Y 1 rip; wEiai lime* it stopped
and shined, how fast the engine ran, bow fast Lhe truck was
going throughout the trip.
The last statistic is especially potent at Ijeprino, which wields
bothcarrul anti -aick to entourage its drivers Jo stay under W
miles an hour. A trnokeT gelsit bonus of th ree cenls a mi Ic for
CvtTy trip lie makes without hi caking (10.
(Sul (he finit time 4t printuul show's a driver sped at fri rni.lcs.an
hour or faster, he gets an official reprimand , The second time,
he is suspended without pay for a week . The third time, he is
fired . I ,e prion has tired liaLL'a dozen truckers for speed ing since
the computers started to he installed about Ihrec years ago.
Drivers at Lcpfino aren't enchanted with the system. T
slaitcd d riving (racks because J 'm k iiid of an independent sort
of a guy that didn't like having the boss always looking over riry
ihouJder," says E.K, Rlaisdell.. a Former 1 .cptino driver who
recently became 4t dispatcher "Then drey managed to intenL a
machine that Looks over my shoulder. "
Missing Childrenās Faces Displayed
ā¢ATitfKt NrĀ» JvmkTi
Pictures of missing children are being flashed on an
electronic billboard in clue Times Square area of New York City
as p;in of a new city drive to Fum) the youngsters. Children Y
laees and a brief description are flashed on lhe screen in 3P-
joeojkf spot*, twiee an hour hetween ti am and midnight. They
4i re followed by (Jw phone number of the police department's
missing persons bureau and a plea chat reads: "Please Help, "ā
In Missouri, the rmtibnY third largest ffwvie theatre chain
announced it would begin 4i program to help find missing
children through slide shows m theatres in 1 03 cities. American
MuLtL-Cimemu will Jcature two children each month. Slides
bearing photos nf the eh ildren aivd their hometowns, ages, and
dates of disappearance are 10 appear at leasi four times before
each screening.
Children's faces are also appearing o-n milk, containers, and
new technology is being used in project what these children will
look like in 1 , 2, or 5 yea rs. [ R ight now, they are only using this
with innocent missing children, fiig Efrodicr finds little bi'odwjr,
easy ;,is pie, J.tY cuLic pussihlc that crimiiiaLs' faces will h*:. 1
showing up in (hrse places in Sho nesi r futu re, fbl lowed by (hose
of suspects or malcontents. 1Lā not here, then somewhere. ...]
night until I get through
LETTERS
1 ā ue s een pi I es of cxoapl os o f
inaccurate billings, from alternate long
distance companies (mostly resulting, fruO
a lock of called party supervision
control). Automated- data calls are the
b tgges t culpritā 'Where the other end
didn 1 t answer or wus busy und the modem
took about a minute to timeout (typical
setting for a long distance call). The
calls charged os if they had been answered
in each und every cnsc. There arc many
more mundane cases that are genera] ly
known -the 0-SFAN cubic service hud some
problems since; they let the phones keep
ringing on their talk shows until they arc
ready to put people on the air. Thus, the
phones might ring for five or ten minutes
or more, and many people Just got ringing
and eventually gave up. Guess what? The
people calling via alternates discovered
thyt they hud gotten hilled for those
calls ā even though they were non-ffllWtrfifu
tots of them. New if a company wonts to
make it u policy that you pay for ail
calls whether they are answered or not
that exceed a certain durnt ion , I guess
that ' u OK , buv. nobody doing th i s has ever
ad* i tied publicly that that's what they
do f In fact! if you confront them with
the question they deny it as often as not
{most likely because they donāt understand
what youāre talking about because t/iey've
never been told what ' s going on f ) .
The little guy who utakes a few long
distance Culls a week doesn't have to
worry about culling up the alternate's
business office codec a month to clour off
u couple of bud billings. But many busi-
nesses are in exactly this sort of
situation, und needless to say they cun
got Et bit tired of it pretty quickly.
We'd like to compile u list of Ion#
dist unco companies that, charge for un-
answered entfs and busy signals. It could
prove _ invul untie to consumers who are
shopping around. If you want to help us
on this, sell or write as. We'd also like
to know how much of a tussle such company
creates for removing wrong numbers from
the hi Ur
About that white box article you printed
in April ā I built one soon after J read
the article on 03-EJNV and found out that it
really doesn 1 L auttor whether you use one
nine-volt battery or two. The tones arc
slightly louder with two batteries, but
using one battery is a lot- more con-
vert! ent . S ince when the pod sits in u
telephone it is petered by the 7ā 9 volts
"off-hook' 1 * voltage that the phone line
gives you, it would seem strange that it
would require Itf volts sitting by itself,
I get my first issue of ZCOd yesterday
and was fairly impressed. You convinced
me to buy Out of the Inner Circle , and 1
urn ulmost. finished with it, Somehow T
canāt gel over bill's Confusion about
bitter-second and baud (see page 45) ā
Too bud nobody knows arty thing about IBM
systems] they are the most ā fun!' 1 will ha
trying your BBS again tonight ā and every
B.irminghaat , AL
When trying the BBS (2Q136&PJ3J ) , you
will get through more frequently if you
try repeatedly within a short period of
time. Most users cannot remain on for
longer than half an hour so you should get
through when they hang Up, It S s also a
good idea to try "non-peak" hours , such es
the middle of a weekday. Those interested
in uploading an article cun do so by
sending mail to "ZCOO MAGAZINE" . Ion can
then send up to 100 lines of text. Wo
handle ZMOhFM transfers at the office
(5167S12SOO} , Best, time to reach a human
is between O pm and midnight , weekdays.
Would you have any information Ofi the
aval lability of ft buck-puck mi crowave
unit, with both 1 ine-of -sight and
satellite capability. With some type of
reemen L for pilid t ime/us o on satellite
annel';' 1 was 'recently told of this rind
have not as of yet found any info on the
eqni pmen t /package .
Gulfport , MB
No one here knows anything about such u
device, except thu t it probably ex is ts
somewhere. In all likelihood, it wouldn't
be consumerā oriented. Our readers are
probably the best people to ask.
How CfLU 1 obtain back issues of ZGOOl
Every issue of Efg)Q is available as u
back issue. Since our first issue wes in
January of 1024,. that means there are
currently JO available, not counting the
one you āre reading . Current Jy, we only
hove a Table of Contents for 1934, but
19S5 buck issues are also available- Each
issue is $1 and you Can Order thorn at our
regular address (Box 752, Middle Ts land,
NY 11352-0752),
Incidentally, you may have noticed a
change in our envelopes, Wc used to huve
& stomp thut looked like this r
11953-0752
ADDRESS CORSE CHON DEMANDED
It was our tongue - in-cheok version of
the uCceptuble "Address Correction
Requested* 1 i a l though some of our renders
took it to mean that wo wanted to receive
frequent address update* from them und
they kept, us informed of their whereabouts
at all times. Apparently a postal czar
somewhere caught sight of this and issued
a decree thut such statements were
unacceptable .. We felt it in the best
in teres ts of Our readers to change the
offending statement, as an angry post
office benefits no one. Wo wore also
advised not to use our nine.-digi t zip code
as our only return address . Even though
the coda is totally unique and leads
directly to us, this system "is not being
used yet according to the people who
implemented it a couple of years ago.
LETTER!? APfltESS
BOX 99, Middle Island, MY l ? 552- 039:?
SUBSCRTPTTOW A Ml BACK ISSUES
BOX 752, Middle Island, MY U95Z-075Z
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MCI Expanding With Optical Fibers
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MO Communications plans to spend about 1400 million 1o
expand j^.^i IJ .S. lellecommuniearions nci work by add i ug opt ical
fiber mutes ;n the M id '.test and elsewhere, [^Opl ion I fibers are
thin, flexible fibers of _q.la.ss cm plaslic that transmit Vbico.,
television p I og r urns , and data i n digita I form, wi Lh on ā u.ff last r
pulses representing rerwand ones. Thin gives greater fidelity lu
the signals with less diiiortiwi ā"mm electrical interference.
Moreover, because the laser beams me so narrow, Lhc glass
filers can carry more in r j mutton than do copper wires. An
optic fiber cable less 1 .nil an inch thick. for instance, can carry
40,00(1 phone calls simultaneously it job t'n.ai would require
severs I copper-wire cables, each 4 1o 6 inches thick. ' Die d iode
lasers found in opt ic fiber systems arc 1 iny cry&tn Is, some no
larger than a grain of salt, chit emit a beam of light when
electrically stimulated. They consist of such materials as
indium, gallium, arsenic, and phosphorous, mixed in specific
propn n ions. Currently. M C I operates an opticu 1 fi he i synem
between New- York and Washington. J
Hie company has ob1ained ri&his 10 7, .'DO itii'is of railroad
right-of-way. Along wit h other improvements, 1 he- project wi I i
increase the long-disianac telephone company ^ transmission
capacity 80% by yen rh end
The First 100% ESS State
Thr Huclm-Jit V- rv>Ā» >.i
By 19JU1, Mow Jersey will be the first shite in die count ly to
convert afl of ils -lit I central offices to Electronic Switching
Systems. As a result, all kinds uf :Ww services wi II he popping
up [such ns insinni 0 etc el ion of all phone phreuks!]. One such
service wi 1 1 allow users to learn who is cal ling (hem before they
pick up lhc phone and to prog mm rhe phone to assign
d isl i nguishii b!e rings to curia in ea llers.
In addition, the company plans to introduce REACT, a
burglar ajunn sysLem Eonnccled to (1Ā« telephone. It informs the
phone com pany if o n alarm is triggered or a phone wire is Cut
Tiii; phone company, in rum, will contact the burglar alarm
company. [l-Tusumably, tfumf7W.v will wind up calling the
cops... !
E-COM Really On The Way Out
WjHSittr I.-lITijI
Tivc Postal Service intends to fold its moLiey-lasingclcctroiito
mail service if it ddcsnl find a private buyer for it by the end of
llie summer.
Mortal officials have been searching since Iasi suimucr foe a
buyer lor E-COM. The service is used by about WQ C?f)
Customers to transfer lEiCssagCS electronically to post olliccs for
delivery via regular mail, usually within two (lays.
AT&T Put On Hold
USA I I 4 !h%
The FOE delayed unlil October I a decision or. an A I & f
plan to of Ic r 1 5% d iscounrf on long-d istance bills in return for a
monthly fee. AT&T had warded lhc plan, aimed m small
bn si nesses, to begin on May I .
GTE Now Rigger Than AT&T
KVa Viyt firM
Cl E Corporation has become the nationās largest utility as a
result of the breakup uf the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, according to Fortune Magazine. G TF. had been a
perennial second to giant AT&T.
Pentagon Steals Cray From AT&T
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Inst January, AT&lās Bell L.iihoTU tones developed a I-
million-bit c āinputtrr chip four times mare powerful Lhart I hr
most advanced Japanese Or American chip Rut lhc race goes
on To proceed to the neat level of (Slip devcLopmcm. Bell
wanted a Cray X-MP supercomputer, made by Cray RcsUiifcLi
of Minneapolis.
Ltd I placed its order with C ray and delivery was rehed u led for
August --until lla 1 Pentatfun snipped in. General Dynamics
Corp. also needed a Cray X-M E- 1 code' research on Lhc F Id id
fighter Cray told General Dyramies to wait its turn. General
Dynamics appealed to the Benlagon mid. Under a ,15-y car-old.
Korean War-era law, got priority over Bell on i he grim nds u I
narinnal security.
FEelfs microchi p i csca i eh w >1 1 he delayed u p to four months
a critical Limouul of time in [lie technological race against
.hi pun .To Dr. Will ium O . Daker, retired el* i i man oh he hoa id
of lie LL Laboratories and a member of the President's
I mclUgence Advisory Boa rd , the issue is i ndeed critica I
"We would feel 1 hut the dcvigci of a fou r-inega h it eh i p ( the
obvious next generation of chip) is as vital us any mutter (hid
eonfivjrtts c'uo country at the moment ... The Pentagon^
allocation of re siM trees in the military is very unskilled and very
iiJuVC,"
NSA Chooses AT&T Computer
I k y ā 1 . | ir
Thu National Security Agency has eluwcn the American
I elephone and Telegraph Company to supply i t w ith up ; n $946
million in minicomputers and services tor a new. classified
project.
The com ram appeared to he one of the largest Lor lhc
purchase uf soph isticated computer systems by the intelligence
community. OITicia Is of the N S A J be largest and most secretive
intelligence agency in lhc Lnited States . did nol say him the
computers would be used. But industry sources and intelligence
analysts suggested that Lhe NSA would deploy the machines ;.i 1
its headquarters in Iron GcuTgC MtSicfc, MU, and in field
ol tiees around the world and would use them to help cigodc
and decode data flowing through rfic Government's
eoniiunnleaiion networks. A spokesman for the NSA sa id the
much it'ift were for a ānew purpose"ā and would involv e "r.i:i ny
units, spread Out ovtfd number of places." Sources indicate
tbal the contrail Culls for up to 3S(f of AT&T's :uosr udvaneed
JB Line of hi perm in scum put era.
IBM Gets Bigger/ Good bye SBS
Ski-. Kirti#
IBM has announced that it will acquire a major Stake Ol
MCI, die nationās second largcsL long distance ICtcphOne
ennifKi ny. In lhc ugrcetiiem, IBMās SBB-Skyline will merge
with MCI. Ill is action conics lew than eagluL months after
IBM's accjuisuinn of Lhc- Rolfn corporation, whieh makes
telephone swi Kb irig cqiiipnveni .
I ogClhcr. MCI und SffS-Skylira; will lave nnc of the la.rge. , ,i
compu tedded transmission networks in the nation for voice,
dura, a nd piau i e-. . Gonsisr.ng of optical II ber, microwave, a no
th iVc of SflS's sutcl li iCs, life; new- network w ill sc rve about 2. 7
million Customers.
Gunnui Hughes, a spokesman for Skyline, said they will
eontimre 10 offer the same scrvic-e, hui will eveiiiiially rnerge
with and become u part of MCI. Hughes said rhal "together
with MCl's tcTTestiui I systems, there will bca syilCTgyTTfiere is
no word yet on any new rate s( mctu res for Skyline u sxts. but
Skyline has vowed to inform customers āāevery step of the way. 11
2-D "
DEC-20 's {writ w'uccf frw!! pt;p: 2-4 1 }
edit, is,. If it is new, you can define it
to bo whatever you wish, Privacy means,
nothing to u user with pri vs. T'noro are
various levels of pri vs: Operator, Wheel,
Cl A , Whee J i a the Jtnos l poweri'u 1 , ha i ng
that he can log' in from anywhere and huve
his powers. Operators huve t.hei.r power
because they are ut a special terminal
allowing them the privs. CIA is short for
Confidential In fo raut i on Access', which
al 1 own you u low leva 1 aiaouri t o f pri vs ā
A'nt to worry though, since you ean read the
system teg file, whioh also has the
passwords to nil the other accounts . To
deactivate yotir pri vs, type "disuhlc".
When you have played your greedy heart out,
you can final ly leave the system with the
command ''logout' 1 . This logs the job you
arc using off the sysltmi (there may
variations of this such as kjob,
It i 1 1 j ob '/ , My the wuv , you can say (if yoii'
have pri vs) ''logout usemuuo" and that
Kills the use r n ame g t erm inul .
There are many more commands, so try them
out. Just remembers leave the account in
the same state as you found it. This way
they may never know that you arc plavirtv
leech off thei r fleet .
Announcing The Great
800 Scan!
Right now. 'phone ph reiks and hackers ,j, . -jr d U le irOiinlry art:
calling thousands of S 00 numbers in :rm effort to collect
InFonwliocl,- Soon an nmazirv lm of Cwnpuleri, mire mail
systems, entcndcni IT 1 XA. :er.ā lumber.;, and service numbers
ā wil ; be compiled! And you cen, te a pari of Cnis. Just:
- Pick your tavorite 400 exchange <SOO-EXC-XXX)0
- Make suro your exchange isnf o Ireaciy&ei i>g sccftinea
- Then dial away, taking note of whof you find
and whaf area code you're calling from.
FOR MORE DETAILS
CALL. OUR OFFICE AT
516-751-2600 AND
ASK TO SPEAK TO AN
800 SCAN COORDINATOR.
We will be keeping track of whet has already
been mepp&d out. Remember, this activity is
FREE and LEGAL!!
The Private Sector Has Gone 10 Meg!
Thedficial bulletin bctird of 2600 -nrovha&evcn mom into
to ahum with out new lO-mogabySe haitl disk drive.
Acccis is open to all! We have Ihc* following Sub bcard-c
Taicom Digosl Madloylfews Arllcl&j
BBS Advertising TpItOm Queriions
falcon Electronics
Trashing Security
Computers & Networking
Coll Tile Piivalc Sector for the mest interesting and
intetlicjcnt L ulk on te I ec cmmu n icalfo ns and computer*
that your modem will ever fir.d!
Call Today f 20 1 - 355-413 1 [ 30 C/ * 200 )
Will pay reasonable price for:
ā¢ Telco service' rep manual
Ā© Info on toll libraries
Q Library codes
Also would like to moot 2600 type people
in Chicago area
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BUFFALO. NY 14212
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