Pending Global Disaster

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Don

Temporal Novice
Back in 1991 I wrote an e-book. I intended for it to fit on a 5.25 inch floppy diskette (when was the last time you saw one of those?). I wrote it using an IBM PC using DOS. I wrote both the book and the program that ran it. Most of the text was compressed so that the final size for the e-book text and the program that ran it was 261 K bytes (max disk size was 360 K bytes).

The name of the e-book is: Pending Global Disasters: Germ War Diary. Its FREE and downloadable from web site www.farviewu.biz

Has the e-book been a fair view of the future since 1991. Is AIDS actually a terrorist act? Will we see more?
 
hi don, nice to meet you. can you switch the file to adobe or something. nothing against you, but i never dload .exe files from non trusted sites.

may i ask, are you a time traveler, or a psychic?
 
Hello Ruthless...

I guess my problem is to get your trust up to the point where you will read my e-book.

My Ham radio call sign is K4IJV. My son's are KI4POX and KI4POY. My son KI4POY got call
letter plates on his car. Alabama get his call wrong and the plates came out K14POY.

Don
 
thats cool that you wrote the program yourself. is it compatible with xp? and may i ask what model the ibm was? im just curious, i love old pc's /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
ruthless,

My first PC was a home made one with a Intel 8088 (8 bit cpu) shortly after they came on the market.

The IBM PC had an Intel 8086 with 4K of ram (if I remember right).

Don
 
i got to page 192. ive gotta take a break from it for a sec and i have a few questions.

what excactly am i reading? is it a nostradamus type of thing? are you psychic? is it a true story?

and is it really true that the f.b.i. hires anti-establishment types to keep itself in check? if so, sign me up too. :D

the story is very well put together, and i can tell that lots of thought has went into it. i mean ALOT. i am more than impressed to say the least so far.

i think i know the "why" for these next few questions, but i'd like to ask just to make sure.

what was your reason for creating this program, when it couldve been written in wordpad, or adobe?

and did you ever think about making it in a newer coding language, for people who know nothing about dos, or for people who cant run dos?

also, for anyone wanting to see this file on windows xp, click start, then go to run, then type command, and a dos prompt will come up. you can also get into dos from the boot screen using the windows xp cd, but that ones a little more complicated. i always format my pc in dos.

anyways, great story so far, ill read the rest in a bit. get ready, as i'll have tons of questions when im done, if you dont mind. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
DOS!! DOSS!! R U CHITTING ME!! Online cyber citizens still write word documents on DOS!?!?!

WHOAAAA I thought that went out in the 90s
 
i love dos. as a matter of fact, i use netstat every day in dos. netstat -n mostly /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

type netstat ? for all the command switches.
 
ruthless,

When I wrote the e-book I was working for CASI-RUSCO (a controlled access (security system) company) in Boca Raton, Fl. I was a hardware engineer/programmer.

I got to thinking about the worst possible security problem that mankind could face. Thats what got the e-book writting started. I also, later in the e-book, address some of the things that we need to change to counter the problem.

Thanks for looking at the e-book. I hope others will read it... I don't expect that anyone in the "government" will look at it.

I have this address label that I put on my mail (ground stuff). Made it myself.
Confused State of America -violet color
2008 Vote for this HONEST -2008 is red, HONEST is blue
Politician:_________ -all other text is black
 
i must say thank you for that book, i just finished it. it was 555 pages correct? as i dont want to miss anything.

i have learned alot from this book, and i thank you for the sharing of knowledge.

i find it funny that she got prgnant on my birthday.

i'll probably have some questions, but right now, i just want it all to sink in. i really hope the government takes notice. it should be mandatory that every government employee read this, and get something from it.

once again, thank you.
 
ruthless,

Thanks for reading my e-book. How about passing copies on to others.

I don't think any government employees will read the e-book since they will need to each get my permision and none have applied.

Did you note my "Confused State of America" tags?

Don
 
It reads just fine as it is.
Click to expand...

Oh indeed, I don't mean to imply it doesn't read 'fine', it does.

But more people would be able to read it if it was online and ran multiple platforms, and you could sell hosted ebooks to other authors just like you are/were selling the DOS ebook s/w to others for $4.

But maybe you don't want lots of people to read it and you don't want to sell ebooks, I was just offering some input.

I'm kinda interested in making an online ebook platform.
 
"But more people would be able to read it if it was online and ran multiple platforms"

it runs on multiple platforms. if i can get it to work in xp, then it can work on linux. just wont run on vista prolly.
 
boqz,

Thanks for your response.

Have you taken the time to download a copy of my e-book and read it?

There is NO WAY any member of our government will EVER read this e-book.
Right on the first page it is classified as "SECRET" and we know that
all (ALL!!!) members of our U.S. Government never (NEVER!!!) violate any
standards. I guess that was my mistake when I wrote the e-book.

Don
 
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