[LUAU] You know this world famous hacker?

[Karen Lofstrom]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Jim Thompson wrote:

> Jim -- who won't admit that he has a complete 'brick' of TAP and a Bud set 
> somewhere, or that he ever got TAP in the mail while he was in Jr. High, 
> (likely putting him on the FBI watch list for life) or that he once, back 
> when computers consumed his life, coded a DSP to generate not only a 
> "complete" set of blue, red and black boxes, but also one end of a UUCP 
> startup sequence from detecting dial tone and generating the DTMF to 'dial' 
> 'the 'phone', through "Shere" just to see if it could be done (as a 1200 baud 
> modem)   Perhaps one of the first "soft modems"...  You could do the same 
> thing with a decent sound card and a P3 today, but hardly anyone talks UUCP 
> anymore.

Uphill, both ways, in the snow ... :)

-- 
Karen Lofstrom
my brother was once a leaf node