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  • Re: Do you know PC-Outline/Brown Bag Software?

    From Rowby Goren@21:1/5 to Marcus Houlden on Wed Sep 21 06:03:17 2022
    On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 5:19:22 PM UTC-7, Marcus Houlden wrote:
    On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] <[email protected]>
    wrote the following to comp.os.msdos.misc:
    On Wednesday, April 9, 1997 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Howard Price wrote:
    I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
    Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
    manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
    Any ideas?

    Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
    Do you know a way to get past it??
    Howard's post is from 1997 so he's probably not still around to read it. However, I assume you could just boot the laptop from a floppy disk, edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove references to whatever starts up the security
    system. A quick Google suggests it might be Brown Bag Power Menu but the company seems to have disappeared in the early 90s with this lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bag_Software_v._Symantec_Corp.

    mh.
    --
    http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
    http://www.houlden.org

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  • From Rowby Goren@21:1/5 to Marcus Houlden on Wed Sep 21 06:05:05 2022
    On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 5:19:22 PM UTC-7, Marcus Houlden wrote:
    On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 08:01:35 -0700 (PDT), [email protected] <[email protected]>
    wrote the following to comp.os.msdos.misc:
    On Wednesday, April 9, 1997 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, Howard Price wrote:
    I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
    Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
    manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
    Any ideas?

    Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
    Do you know a way to get past it??
    Howard's post is from 1997 so he's probably not still around to read it. However, I assume you could just boot the laptop from a floppy disk, edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove references to whatever starts up the security
    system. A quick Google suggests it might be Brown Bag Power Menu but the company seems to have disappeared in the early 90s with this lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bag_Software_v._Symantec_Corp.

    mh.
    --
    http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
    http://www.houlden.org
    John Friend was the author of Grandview, which apparently was based on PC Outliner. Alas Grandview is not available for Windows and has been abandoned. Too bad.

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