Part 61 (2/2)

Would you like to receive another? No Do you want to exit to CoeExe as Kirk had instruct- ed, hoping that he was still waiting at the other end The screen displayed various copyrights and Federal warnings about illegal copying of software, the very crime Scott had just com- mitted

The video suddenly split into ts The bottomlooked just like the screen he used to talk to Kirk, except much smaller Only 10 out of a possible 25 lines The upper half of the screen was new MIRAGE-Remote View (C)1988

Kirk announced hi Two screens

GOOD THAT MEANS EVERYTHING PROBABLY WORKED LET'S TEST IT

YOU AND I TALK JUST AS USUAL, ON THE SMALL WINDOW, LIKE WE'RE DOING NOW ON THE TOP WINDOW, YOU WILL SEE WHAT I'M DOING

EXCEPT IN MINIATURE BECAUSE YOU ONLY HAVE 15 LINES TO SEE, AND A NORMAL SCREEN IS 25 LINES, THE PROGRAM COMPRESSES THE SIGNAL TO DISPLAY IT IN FULL DO YOU HAVE A DECENT MONITOR?

vga 14 inch

GOOD YOU WON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS REMEMBER, WHENEVER YOU WANT A COPY OF THE SCREEN, HIT shi+FT-PRTSCR

Can't I save everything?

CTRL-ALT-S, YEAH

Done Anything else?

YOU CAN'T INTERFERE JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE

A Sunday drive in the country

WITH ME DRIVING HA! FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS

Scott watched with his fingers sitting on the keyboard with anticipation A phone number was displayed on top line in the Upper Window: 18005555500

<dialing>>

In a few seconds the screen announced,

WELCOME TO USA-NET, THE COMPLETE DATA BASE

The graphics got fancy but in black and white

ARE YOU A FIRST TIME USER? NO

ID? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PassWORD? xxxxxxXX

The video monitor did not let Scott see the access codes

Welco: 0:04:57 December 18, 1990

DO YOU WANT THE MAIN MENU? Y

Scott's largebegan to scroll and fill with lines after line of options:

</dialing>