On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Max Eskin wrote: Max, we had this very discussion a couple months ago. You could probably go back to the archives and read up on it. But it was a fun topic and wouldn't mind doing it all over again. To answer your first question, the technology the movie portrayed was all feasible in real life, save for the programming of Joshua. In my opinion, the plot was plausible (at least more so than _Sneakers_, and especially _Hackers_ to name a couple flicks in the genre) but still somewhat far-fetched. Everything David did in the movie was all pretty real, ie. war-dialing through a stolen calling card, getting dialtone from the payphone by grounding the microphone (still possible today but in a different way...payphone trunks are now dialtone first whereas in the WarGames era they required a coin to be dropped before you got dialtone). I also wondered if there was significance to the launch code. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!