On 12/28/2015 2:06 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi
Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me)
its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit,
Tape drives in action and apart from the Mac no Windows anywhere.
I think LBL must have bought one of everything.
The story (true) is not bad either.
I now expect to get a long list of weveseenits.
Ron
I have not seen that, but have the Stoll Book, Cuckoo's Egg. A friend
of mine is central to this, and is in the book (though I've not seen
him for 30 years...)
Ron Vivier was a programmer @ Microdata for a couple of years before
leaving and moving to the Bay area and resurfacing @ Tymnet. There
was a lull for a bit then all of a sudden the story about Stoll
trapping the guy made headlines, and there in the front of it was
Ron. He did what I'd have expected him to do, but the people covering
the story didn't get that was in his nature to help like that.
I ended up with the desk cleanout droppings from his desk and kept
most of it for years, and still owe him a chess clock (which is around
here somewhere). Still has his name dymo'ed on the top.
I found the video you posted about, will take a look tomorrow, late
here tonight. thanks for the lead. Wonder what Stoll is up to these
days.
Thanks
Jim
among the other activities mentioned here, he still gets speaking
invitations to law enforcement functions. He has a habit of showing up
with a large envelope of viewgraph slides asking for an overhead projector.
steve shumaker
(yes... I was there - the book is actually rather accurate)
