Re: xebec/apple questions

[bje@ripco.com (Bruce Esquibel)]

momo (quality_us@yahoo.com) wrote:

: I can't help technically too much but from what you mentioned about
: operation Sundevil and an oddly booting Apple2, were you involved with LOD
: or MOD? Just curious 'cause I've done alot of research on hacking in the
: early 90's. This machine of yours sounds like something that was mentioned
: in a book I read 'Masters of Deception', it was used to keep alot of
: interesting information databased.

Hmm, we had text files, but not much more than what you found on other bbs's
at the time. Keep in mind in the late 80's having like 40 meg dedicated to a
bbs was towards the top of the food chain. 80 megs, like what ripco had was
over the top.

Wouldn't exactly call it a database, we just didn't throw stuff out as often
because of disk space.

I'm not familar with that book so I can't answer, the only one (besides
online documents) that mentioned me or ripco was "the hackers crackdown" by
Bruce Sterling. Although I give him credit for the effort to bring things to
light, a lot of information in that book is inaccurate or enhanced a bit
from the truth. Good reading but I wouldn't make a documentary of it.

If any of you folks are interested in historical stuff like this, you should
check out:

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com

he's doing a really good job of putting together a film documentary about
the early days of bbs's including in-depth stuff about the hardware and
software used.

Of course my favorite page...

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/photos/129ripco/

thanks again to everyone for the input,

-bruce
bje@ripco.com