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Article #405Re: Another secret message
From: to... Todd Day
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 09:24
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 09:24
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gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) writes: `In article <183@bucsb.UUCP>, apollo@bucsb.UUCP (Doug Chan) writes: `> >>On the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, if you press ... `> `> The word "Microsoft" showed up, if I remember correctly, if you did a CLS (x) `> and x is beyond the range of 0-7. `Hidden msg code would somehow hide/encrypt the string "Microsoft" so it `wouldn't be patched. This made `it very easy when you got to court and you could show that the bastard's `software, which they claim that they wrote themselves, inexplicably showed `"Microsoft" when you hit a secret key combination. This is not hidden. When the CoCo boots up, it prints a message on the screen like COLOR BASIC 1.2 (C) MICROSOFT You can easily see this text when you dump the ROM. When the CLS subroutine saw an out of bounds number, it would grab the pointer to the "M" in MICROSOFT and jump the print subroutine. No hidden messages here... -- Todd Day | to...@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!to...@anise.acc.com Face the fear and do it anyway.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!husc6!rutgers!usc!jarthur!ginger.acc.com!ivucsb!todd From: to...@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Another secret message Message-ID: <1990Jan9.092418.14089@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> Date: 9 Jan 90 09:24:18 GMT References: <15000@well.UUCP> <162@bucsb.UUCP> <866@vision.UUCP> <183@bucsb.UUCP> <10182@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: Lazy Engineers Who Drive Sportscars, Santa Barbara, CA Lines: 29 Posted: Tue Jan 9 10:24:18 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit