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- #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 ####
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- ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 3^*^*^*^
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- **** File 10 of 12 ****
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- [Ed's Note: Certain names have been change in the article to
- protect the author]
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- The Flight of The Mad Phone-Man's BBS
- to a Friendly Foriegn Country
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- Using my knowledge that the pigs grab your computer when
- they bust you, I got real worried about loosing a BIG investment
- Ive got in my IBM. I decide theres a better way....Move it! But
- where? Where's safe from the PhBI? Well in the old days, to
- escape the draft, you went to canada, why not ex-patrate my
- board.... well the costs of a line are very high, lets see whats
- available elsewhere.
- One afternoon, Im working at a local hospital, (one I do
- telecom work for) and I ask the comm mgr if they have any links
- to Canada? He says why yes, we have an inter-medical link over a
- 23ghz microwave into the city just across the border. I ask to
- see the equipment. WOW! My dreams come true, its a D4 bank
- (Rockwell) and its only got 4 channel cards in it. Now, being a
- "Nice" guy, I offer to do maintainence on this equipment if he
- would let me put up another channel...he agrees. The plot
- thickens.
- I've got a sattelite office for a business near the
- hospital on the other side, I quickly call up good ole Bell
- Canada, and have them run a 2 wire line from the equipment room
- to my office, Now the only thing to get is a couple of cards to
- plug i the MUX to put me on the air.
- A 2 wire E&M card goes for bout $319. and Id need two, I
- look around the state, and find one bad one in Rochester.... I'm
- on my way that afternoon via motorcycle, the card is mine, and
- the only thing I can find wrong is a bad voltage regulator. I
- stop by the Rockwell office in suburban Rochester and exchange
- the card, while I'm there, I buy a second one (Yeah, on my card)
- and drive home.... by 9pm that nite the circut is up, and we are
- on the air.
- Results- Very good line, no noise, can be converted to a
- card for a modest fee if I want the bandwidth. So thats the story
- of how the board went to a "Friendly foreign country"
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- The Mad Phone-man
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- Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253 12yrs+
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