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EPISODE #2
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*****THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY MODEM*****
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In episode #1 we left Molly perusing the technical manual for the
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BEAST super computer. Which has as its heart the 80666 processor.
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"So that's what parallel architecture is all about"
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thought Molly. It's going to be hard to return this baby to Joe when
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I'm through with it! Molly was learning that in computing it was very
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easy to get hooked on speed. 8MHz, 12MHz now half a giga-hertz.
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Going back to the XT was going to be hard even if it did have
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a new V20 chip! Molly returned from her reverie and decided to call
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Ren of Farwest bulletin board. She dialed up his secret voice line
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and was soon filling him in on the evil doings of VonCriptic.
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In the last few days Ren had been receiving reports of other hacker
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problems in the Victoria area. Trojans had been found in two other
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local boards. Even the Victoria Real Estate computer had been
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broken into. Whenever a real estate agent tried to access data on
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a house it was listed "SOLD BY OWNER"!!!! They were frantic!!
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Ren suggested a meeting that night to discuss tactics for
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protecting Farwest and trapping VonCriptic. Molly requested that
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Michael, Farwest's co-sysop join the discussion. His technical
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skill and far reaching knowledge would be an asset.
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That night they met in one of the unused rooms at the Big
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Blue and Cousins club house. A noisy advanced SIG was going on in
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the front room and no one disturbed their small group. Ren was adamant
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"We've got to track this turkey down and turn him over to the law
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before he causes any more trouble." Molly explained her ideas for
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out hacking VonCriptic and quietly brought out the manuals for the
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BEAST. As soon as Michael saw some of the specifications for the
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80666 processor he let out a low whistle. "I won't ask where you
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got this thing but if half of this stuff is true we should be able
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send VonCriptic a super headache if he tries to crash Farwest!!!"
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Michael detailed the plan. They would connect the BEAST to Farwest
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using it's own built in ultraheterodyne modem. In essence they would be
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using it as a super ROM burner to reprogram VonCriptics own BIOS!
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Molly thought it was a fantastic idea and promptly volunteered to
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pick up the one thousand Ever-Ready batteries the circuit would use.
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When connected in series through the BEAST these would provide the
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power pulses to reprogram Voncriptics machine. Ren was getting
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excited "Before that guy can send one block of a trojan we'll have
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him!!! If he's touching a water pipe at the time we may even reprogram
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his cerebral cortex!" That decided it. Ren and Michael would build the
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super ROM burner interface and Molly would write the code for the
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BEAST. Molly left the club house and drove back to her apartment.
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Ideas for the program to be written ran through her mind. As she drove
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past the Empress Hotel she did not realize that in one of the upper
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story rooms a special receiver was being tuned. This receiver was
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capable of detecting the telltale microwave emissions from an
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operating 80666 processor! Doctor Node was turning the dials on
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the small gray box, but only getting static."DOUBLE DOS DAMN @#*!"
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he cursed. His clandestine sources had tipped him that an 80666
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system was secretly being shipped to Victoria. His receiver should
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have picked it up by now. "Maybe dey got it in a shielded room, boss"
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said Baud Job from his comfortable position on the bed. Baud Job did
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not like being cooped up in musty hotel rooms. He would have preferred
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practicing some karate katas. A seventh dan black belt master of
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Wang-Noh-Guchie usually spent several hours a day kicking holes in
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concrete slabs. Baud Job especially enjoyed practicing the deadly
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SIDE KICK!!! SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!! came from the speaker of the
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gray box. Doctor Node turned dials and wrote down bearings on a
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tourism department map. "Soon! soon we will have it!" whispered
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Doctor Node.
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"Now to clean this up a bit and put in another subroutine...."
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thought Molly as the cursor danced across the screen. Working with
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the BEAST was easier than she would have guessed. Having such huge
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memory and incredible speed made it almost like using the fictional
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computer in the Startrek series. Whole areas of RAM could be set
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aside for artificial intelligence programming aids. "That's enough for
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now" Molly clicked off the power switch and headed for the bedroom.
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**************************************************************
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Will Molly be able to finish writing the program for zapping
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VonCriptic? Will Baud Job catch up to her and use his deadly
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SIDE KICK? Will Ren win BIG bucks at LOTTO-649 and install three
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more phone lines? For answers to these and other questions stay
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tuned for ......EPISODE #3 of .......
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****** THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY MODEM ******
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