At 4:50 PM 10/22/95, Jim Gillogly wrote:

I just bought "Hardware" (Delacorte Press, 1995) by Linda Barnes, one of my favorite mystery authors, and experienced a startled frisson when I saw that at least a couple of subscribers had their work immortalized: Tim's "Invitation to BlackNet" is the opening quote, and the date given is for L.'s widespread Usenet spam of Feb '94.

Interesting. I'll pick up a copy today.

No book report here, but it was as gripping as the rest of her efforts. It's "about" people rather than computer hackery, but the computery bits were done quite well. Does an Amiga 2000 <really> have PC and Mac compatibility options? I don't know, and it doesn't matter anyway.

I recollect that the Amiga had some gizmo--I think it was called "MagicSack" or something like that--that let it run Macintosh programs, sort of. It never really caught on, at least as an alternative to real Macs. And I think something similar was available for DOS. This was all several years back, before the Amiga faded out. Amiga users and former Amiga users can probably tell us more. --Tim May Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."