Re: The Turley A2 Chronicles - Vol. 1 (:Was Re: The Rantings of Harold Hislop

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

You're absolutely right Doede, on all points and issues.  BTW, for the 
benefit of everybody reading this thread, please be advised - I had a 
long and very informative rehash of all the details on the OmniPaint 
incident (from 3 years ago) - with a telephone call I made 2 days ago to 
the powers-that-be today at SQC and the Editor of II Alive.  

Although I had the very same discussion concerning all the REAL FACTS 
behind the OmniPaint incident with the past Pres. of Quality Computers,
Joe Gleason, three years ago, I didn't know then - that Auri had stolen 
the original and only copy I had in my home, when he visited me at my 
home, many years ago.  Now I do know and so do the power-that-be today 
at SQC.  

The funny thing about Joe Kohn's request for Auri to send hin the disk 
'OmniPaint' is that if Auri does send it to Joe, then they are both 
guilty of being pirates and using the mail to do it too!  Besides, Joe 
copied the entire box of my confidential disks - clearly marked 'NOT FOR 
DISTRIBUTION OR COPY, PRIVATE BACK-UP DISKS FROM DR. TOM', 3 years ago, 
in one of his massive copy/trade trips to our then mutual and my now old 
friend Al.  Yes, Joe Kohn copied them all, without Al's knowledge or 
consent, then mailed the entire copied contents from that box to Quality 
Computers, behind Al's back, in Al's home.  Joe told me this himself, 
when I asked him about it during one of our many telephone discussions 
of the distant past.  I even recorded the conversation from that 
telephone call.  Does anybody know who to make a .WAV file of that tape?

So, Quality Computers has had the disk copy of OmniPaint - that Joe 
mailed to them, along with all the others from 1993.  So, now you know!

As I didn't even have access to the Internet or didn't even know what 
the Internet was all about, when the OmniPaint and Spectrum beta uploads 
occured and didn't even have possession of the OmniPaint disk at that 
time either, I think it's pretty logical now to make a fairly sane 
conclusion as to just who really did upload those two archives to the 
Internet, BBS' and who knows where else.  Matthew Carlson or whoever he 
was calling his self then - strikes again and even went so far as to use 
a fake acct. and fake the name of the uploader as Ian Schmidt. (NOW 
EVERYBODY READ THAT LAST LINE CLOSELY PLEASE)  Ian Schmidt didn't - I 
REPEAT DID NOT do it!  I also had a long telephone discussion with Ian 
Schmidt about all of this, back in 1993.  Somebody else did it and used 
a fake acct. with his name to do the upload.  How do I know that - you 
all ask?  That's info I got directly from none other than Earl Childers, 
Pres. of Seven Hills Software, in a telephone call to me at my home, the 
same day it first appeared with the Spectrum beta of mine on the NET and 
many BBS'.  And, if you don't beleive me, then email him or give him a 
call about that telephone call and the contents of our conversation.

Now can we PLEASE get on with some constructive and useful Apple II 
related discussions that deal with the HERE and NOW of REALITY on this 
newsgroup?

Cheers,
Tom