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

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Steve Reeves (stever@gate.net) wrote:
: 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.

$87 is also the byte you would send to COUT for a Bell sound.

Microsoft, with bells and whistles?  Who knows?

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