JULY, 1985 S'rf^i.1 i4h' i’jih vLp.iJ h- l-iilu;'' im.^. I ik i »l.v *'*• •* .. " ■nr^jiiiAii ii”. M 2 Let . >h !■ 1 1 1 .h 11I1-. 'Ll pii iv'iK 1 V; v !! kc:ii I ill ! ni/ ujhxj rt-nin >.'n'|i.i j'c Sy*'iJ W.-Hi I,. m W.v VZAI^-iL Niih! NVlKVi/^MW 3|.>MW«l HBS ji W-l.',*’ IS\% ■ k- |> nii 1 - I: 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 ‘ level prompt} YOL’> 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 wouldn’t, 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 ’ 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 tar” also i works . Thi & t orm i nu 1 is set up us . ■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 [*,*]’' 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. 'isn’t, 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 •{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 . ’'Enable” g i ves you a $ prompt. , and a 1 ] o«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 username’'. If the username is old, you can { 1 1 on { In re. \lot\ pay,* ■ 2 bunking from your terminal— 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 ter»inul. : You must he using their special software. This Etewis that, you ean't even subscribe unless y°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 £ course , this hypothetical ,. woul d need their own copy of PRONTO softwares; Rat thut would not be “uch 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 „ . . ■ 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 ° 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"“ * 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 — ■ 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 common— 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 ’ 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 □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 .‘-Har-I «: 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 Ti»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,” 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 I’ress 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 “volume 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 Children’s Faces Displayed •ATitfKt Nr» 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, "■ 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. 1L‘ not here, then somewhere. ...] night until I get through LETTERS 1 ’ 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 culprit— '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 — 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 don’t understand what you’re 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 — 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 7— 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 can’t gel over bill's Confusion about bitter-second and baud (see page 45) „ Too bud nobody knows arty thing about IBM systems] they are the most ■fun!' 1 will ha trying your BBS again tonight — 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 consumer— 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 ‘re 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 . 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Thin gives greater fidelity lu the signals with less diiiortiwi ’"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>» >.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 (1« 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 nation’s 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 Sr* T i m m'i fl-. Ii Sr*! Inst January, AT&l’s Bell L.iihoTU tones developed a I- million-bit c ’inputtrr 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 ‘ 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 “new purpose"’ 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 nation’s second largcsL long distance ICtcphOne ennifKi ny. In lhc ugrcetiiem, IBM’s 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 ’’every 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 „ 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. 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