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- ==Phrack Inc.==
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- Volume Two, Issue 14, Phile #2 of 9
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- ==Phrack Pro-Phile X==
-
- Written and Created by Taran King
-
- 5/24/87
-
- Welcome to Phrack Pro-Phile X. Phrack Pro-Phile is created to bring
- info to you, the users, about old or highly important/controversial people.
- This month, we bring to you a sysop and user of past days...
-
- Terminus
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- Terminus is the sysop of NetSys Unix and, in the past, ran Metronet.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Personal
- ~~~~~~~~
- Handle: Terminus
- Call him: Len
- Past handles: Terminal Technician
- Handle origin: Terminal Technician originated because of Len's view of
- himself as a hacker. Terminus was an offshoot of that
- and, although it is an egotistical view, it means he has
- reached the final point of being a proficient hacker.
- Date of Birth: 1/10/59
- Age at current date: 29 years old
- Height: 5'9"
- Weight: About 190 lbs.
- Eye color: Hazel
- Hair Color: Brown
- Computers: 6800 home brew system, Apple ][, Altair S100, 2 Apple
- ][+es, IBM PC, IBM XT, IBM 3270, IBM AT, and 2 Altos
- 986es.
- Sysop/Co-Sysop of: MetroNet, MegaNet, and NetSys Unix.
-
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- Terminus began with the 6800 home brew system which he built himself.
- It was built on a STD44 bus and it had 8K of memory. He then got the Apple ][
- (plain old ][) which was impressive with its cassette drive and RF modulator.
- He then got an Altair S100 which he liked because it looked like a mainframe
- and he also enjoyed building it. The 2 ][+es came along and he got himself a
- few floppies and a hard drive. He then sold 2 of the Apples and gave away all
- his software (and kept 1 Apple with a 15 meg hard drive) and got the IBM PC.
- He was impressed at the time and ditched the Apple. Due to frustration from
- switching from an Apple Cat to a Hayes, he sat down and wrote a hacker which
- eventually turned into CodeBuster, which was, for a long time, the only good
- hacker available on IBM. He then expanded and got an XT and slowly increased
- his amount of storage. When the AT came out, he got rid of the PC and got the
- AT and at the same time, bought the IBM 3270. After playing around with the
- AT for a long time, he sold it because he needed some money so he was left
- with the XT and 3270. The XT was sold to make money to buy the Altos 986 and
- he sold the 3270 about 4 months ago, now leaving him with the 2 Altos 986es.
-
- Terminus started running a bulletin board with an unmentionable board
- to start with in 914 (where he met Paul Muad'Dib), and eventually got MetroNet
- going. MetroNet's original purpose was to be a phreak/hack board. It was run
- on an Apple ][ with 4 8" drives and 2 floppies plus a 5 meg hard drive, which
- malĪ!for an impressive system. It was going really well for a while, but then
- the hard drive crashed, leaving the board down for about a month and things
- slowed down after that. At that time, he got a 15 meg drive, and a 1200
- modem soon followed and it stayed up for about a year and a half total, at
- which time Lord Digital was co-sysop. It finally went down because he moved.
- MegaNet was his next system, which ran under Concurrent PC-DOS. It looked
- like a public domain system, but that was camoflauge. It was multi-user (2
- phone lines) and it ran on the XT. That went down because he moved again
- after being up for over a year. He is currently running NetSys Unix on his 2
- Altos 986es which are networked. The system consists of 2 Altos 986es, an
- Ethernet link, 240 megs, and 4 phone lines on a hunt, 3 of which are 1200 baud
- and the final line is 2400 baud. To get on NetSys, it is just $5 a month and
- it can be reached at 301-540-3659 (2400 baud), and 3658-3656 (300/1200 baud).
- Terminus has never really met anyone in person from the phreak/hack
- community, although he had many chances to in New York when he lived there.
- He did go to a couple of Tap meetings, but doesn't remember anyone in specific
- when he went.
-
- Len started phreaking and hacking through a friend who worked in the
- phone company that told him about various things that could be done with
- electronics to play with the network. He was very paranoid about boxing so he
- never did anything like that (from his house anyway). He started hacking
- naturally after he got a computer. His favorite system was the University of
- Illinois because of its huge size and capabilities.
-
- Some of the memorable phreak boards he was on included Plovernet,
- L.O.D., Pirate 80, OSUNY, Sherwood Forest I, and Shadowland.
-
- Terminus is an electronic engineer and he designs boards for
- different minicomputers like PDP-11s, Data Generals, Vaxes, and Perkin-Elmer.
- He also writes some software to interface the boards that he makes. He's
- pretty decent at machine language, but recently (maybe because of the Unix?
- Maybe?) he's gotten into C.
-
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-
- Interests: Telecommunications (modeming, phreaking, hacking), music,
- and smoking (ahem).
-
- Terminus's Favorite Things
- --------------------------
-
- Smoking: Let's leave it at that.
- Music: Hard rock and progressive jazz (he used to be a drummer).
- Programming: Writing software for fun.
-
- Most Memorable Experiences
- --------------------------
-
- Getting interviewed by the FBI in 1983 due to someone in Iowa getting busted.
- The first time he discovered Alliance Teleconferencing and ran a conference.
-
- Some People to Mention
- ----------------------
-
- Krackowicz (Just a big "Thanks.")
- The (414) Gizard (Sysop of Cryton Elite, thanks for giving him the phone
- numbers and names to everyone on your system.)
- Lord Digital (For being a good friend [Where the hell are you?].)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Terminus shares Tuc's views on carding and feels it's a big gap
- between committing fraud and learning the network. As he got older, he got
- more paranoid about things like that. He also feels that the phreak/hack
- "community" has already crumbled. He also feels that the old days were
- better.
-
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-
- I hope you enjoyed this file, ...And now for the regularly taken poll from all
- interviewees.
-
- Of the general population of phreaks you have met, would you consider most
- phreaks, if any, to be computer geeks? No, none of the people that he hung
- out with. Thank you for your time, Len.
-
- Taran King
- Sysop of Metal Shop Private
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