Re: Two friendly questions to Apple II users...

[stever@gate.net (Steve Reeves)]

In article <5m02ml$q76@rock101.genie.net>, <richard.b@genie.com> wrote:
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>
>>Exclusive-OR each byte with 87, and you get:
>>21 54 46 4F 53 4F 52 43 49 4D
>
>>Converting to ASCII:
>>!TFOSORCIM
>
>>:-)
>
>>The XOR was an educated guess, from looking at the first byte!  I have
>>no idea why 87 was picked as the mask.
>
>$87 = ^G = Gates?

87 backwards is 78, the year Apple licensed the BASIC from Microsoft.

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Steve Reeves
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