Default password for Pick system on an AT?

Richard wrote... Awesome... soon you'll be a Pick addict :) I've dealt with a *LOT* of different versions of BASIC, and IMHO I've never found a BASIC nearly as nice as Pick BASIC. Not even close. The classic "superuser" account on all pick systems is SYSPROG try logging in with that. By default, there was no password. However, it was extremely common to password protect that even in tiny shops. If it's a late version of pick (doubtful), use DM (which should be just a Q-account to SYSPROG). Note, most Picks the login was typically all upper case. There was a way to break in the system. I'm going from foggy memory... as I recall, I would log on to an account that wasn't supposed to be logged in to (not from a security standpoint, there were some data repositories in pick that they typically set up as an account but weren't really valid accounts). However, you could log in to them. I seem to recall ERRMSG account, perhaps BLOCK-LETTERS. Once you logged in, since these weren't really "accounts" you had little or no valid master dictionary (ie. no commands). BUT... you could at least use the break key then to get into the system debugger. Once there, you could calculate the system base frame and start from there, tracking down to the SYSTEM file (where users were kept). The data bytes in a raw frame for the sysprog account were obvious :) On older systems, before they hashed passwords, you could see the password for SYSPROG in plain text. On newer systems, it was a hash. However, you could generate a known hash on a different machine and then just patch that hash in place of the current hash. Then log out from the debugger and log into SYSPROG. I am quite sure the above is basically correct, however time may have made parts of the above fuzzy. If you have no success with any of the above, give me a shout and I'll dig up the necessary manuals and get you broken in. Regards, Jay West