| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 #### |
| ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 3^*^*^*^ |
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| [Ed's Note: Certain names have been change in the article to protect the |
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| The Flight of The Mad Phone-Man's BBS to a Friendly Foreign Country |
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| Using my knowledge that the pigs grab your computer when they bust |
| you,I got real worried about losing a BIG investment I've got in my IBM. I |
| decide there's 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 |
| expatriate my board.... Well the costs of a line are very high, let's see |
| what's available elsewhere. |
| One afternoon, I'm 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, |
| it's a D4 bank (Rockwell) and it's only got 4 channel cards in it. Now, being |
| a "nice" guy, I offer to do maintenance on this equipment if he would let me |
| put up another channel...he agrees. The plot thickens. |
| I've got a satellite 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 into the MUX to put me on the air. |
| A 2 wire E&M card goes for bout $319, and I'd need two. Ilook 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 night the circuit is up, and we are on the air. |
| Results- Very good line, no noise, can be converted with another card |
| for a modest fee if I want the bandwidth. So that's the story of how the |
| board went to a "friendly foreign country." |
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| The Mad Phone-Man |
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