I dug up the demon dialer program I wrote in 1983 and let it loose for old time’s sake. The results below include incremental dialing from 7137491000 through 7137497999 (UH) and 7139370000 through 7139375500 (NW Houston). The format you’ll see below first lists the number which had a successful connection, the estimated baud rate, and […]

This is the codebase for the B.B.S. (bulletin board system) program I developed from 1983 to 1987 as of today. 10 DIM DA$(12),LG$(25),MEM$(50),GD$(50) 100 GOTO 110 :: CALL CHAR :: CALL JOYST :: A$,AA$,AB$,AC$,AD$,B$,C$,CL$,OL$,D$,DAT$,EN$,F$,FILE$,FX$,LT$,M$,MSG$,NAME$,PHONE$,PR$,PRV$,PSWRD$,PX$,ST$,T$=”” 101 DU$,TITLE$,V$,VA$,VAR$,VER$,YN$,_$,DA$(12),BNAME$(10),BORDER$(10),LAST$(3),DECK$(4)=”” :: A,B,BASEMSG,BOARD,BRD,C=0 102 CALNUM,CH,D,FIND,G,H,HST,K,LG,LINE,LN,LVL,MX,O,R,S,SS,TAG,TI,U,X,XPERT,Y,YY,Z,ZZ,FLS(5),MSG(4),V(4),E(4)=0 103 CALL ERR :: CALL KEY :: CALL LINK :: CALL LOAD :: CALL SOUND […]