OT: Easter Eggs

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:58:18 -0500
> From: Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> Subject: Re: OT: Easter Eggs
> To: Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>
> Cc: filePro <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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> Quoting Walter Vaughan (Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:41:47 -0500):
> [...]
> > >>  Shut her down Scotty, she's sucking mud.
> [...]
> > All you gotta do is run a (basic?) program that pulled that string out.
> > Not sure if my 16b has it on the disk still. Might check it out this
> > weekend.
> [...]
> 
> A "strings" won't show it, as it was encoded.  I forget the encoding
> method, but it was pretty simple -- just enough to prevent "strings"
> from showing it.

I forget the details, it's been about 20 years.  Bob Snapp's script as I recall was a dd to an offset with a tr in there, but there was an odd loop as well.  I'm preety sure I didn't have msbasic on the machine I was working with.  A pity that when CompuSlave dropped a forum they also jettisoned the whole message archive and file database -- some of the stuff on the Tangent forum (among others) I would kill to get right now when I'm trying to restore a few old machines.  (Along with a couple of files I uploaded that I've lost in the more-than-three moves since)

I do know that the FSR (lBob Walls) who covered the Riverside/San Bernardino area had to deal with a customer whose machine developed the impossible condition that would invoke that BUGHLT message.
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