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Re: Another secret message

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From: j... John Pettitt
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 08:11
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k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>I once did a hex dump of Spellstar and found this string embedded
>in the binary: "Nosy, aren't you?"

Several products that I have been involved in have an imbedded copyright
notice, followed by who wrote what and then the comment:

	Now stop being nosy !

Another hidden message is the clasic on the PET, if you type:

WAIT 6502,n 

it prints `Microsoft' n times !



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From: j...@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt)
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Subject: Re: Another secret message
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Date: 18 Dec 89 08:11:53 GMT
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