WELCOME TO TAC 82 AT CNET TECHNOLOGIES Please read the NEWS... Important Message for all users ICT_1270 ONLINE CMD-L1 ACTIVE .NEWS All News or Date Forward? (A or D)?D Enter Date as MM/DD - Eg. 9/9 Must Be 09/09: 10/20 Scanning News File for Date... 10/26/84 - THE TRUTH about KRI-AI Network... HAVE YOU ENJOYED THE REALISM OF THE KRI-NETWORK? I am sure that this will be a dissappointment to some of you, to others a victory of sorts. The KRI Network is not real! It is the top level of a facinating new concept in computer gaming. The TOTAL role playing game. The people that you may have met so far are "real people" portrayed by "actors and actresses". They have become the people that they play. Is the Network real? Yes in a way. It is actually a LAN (Local Area Network) allowing several people to become "Operators and Users" at different HOST machines on the network. This elaborate "system" is just the tip of the iceburg and only one of several like it under development. You will find that even with this admission of the "TRUTH" about the network, the people who play the roles will continue to react as if they are real persons at real remote locations. Why? Because our goal is to create TOTAL REALISM. These persons will eventually meet with some players under the "right" conditions. In other words the computer is only part of the game. It will take wits to end up ***** ANY KEY TO CONTINUE... a winner in the "KRYLON INCIDENT". WHAT IS IN IT FOR THE WINNER? The winner of this game will win $1,000.00! That is the reward for helping us to find the person or person(s) involved in the stealing of KRI's secrets. HOW DO YOU WIN? Well... It seems that KRI has a problem. For the last six months each major breakthrough they have achieved in the AI field has been announced by the Chinese first. There is a major leak. One or more employees or users are suspected of stealing the secrets and passing them on to KRI's major rival, Symbionic Systems International. KRI is willing to issue user passwords to a selected group of individuals who, themselves will pose as users and develop enough evidence to apprehend the person(s) involved in the industrial espionage. If you choose to participate, and you can piece together the right evidence KRI will supply you with a magnetic tape containing data that the criminals will pay dearly for. You will arrange for a meeting to ***** ANY KEY TO CONTINUE... sell the tape. If you are sucessful, agents will be there to arrest the culprit(s) and you will be wisked away to collect your reward! If you decide to accept this challange, you will be on your own. KRI cannot assist you in many ways without endangering you to exposure. You will have to find your own way arround the network and even break into some of the more restricted systems. The only systems that you will have immediate access to are the TAC itself and KRI-MAIN, the host that auto-serves this TAC. The rest will be up to you. Oh, by the way, there are also a couple of system operators who are on our side. If you make contact and win their support, you will interact with them via mail, phone and personal contact. TAC 82 was conceived of to allow new "Students" and "Scietists/Reasearchers" entry to the system. For all intents and purposes noone else in the entire network knows what it is really for and all users of TAC 82 will be accepted as regular users of the KRI network by employees and users at other sites. To win this game you will need a superb sense of logic and common sense. The ***** ANY KEY TO CONTINUE... pieces leading to the solution are burried in the system itself! We hope that you will accept the challange. THE SYSTEM. The network was designed by people who have had many years of experience with wide area networks and will provide the maximum in realism possible. Multiple telephone lines exist and more will be added as the need becomes apparent. Both 300 and 1200 baud lines will be available. The system is almost ready to go. The game will begin soon. WHAT DOES IT COST? To become a player it requires a $15.00 initiation fee and $ 2.00 per hour for computer time. This means that you can spend as little or as much as you want while playing this facinating new game. HOW DO YOU BECOME A PLAYER? ***** ANY KEY TO CONTINUE... The APPLY command is now your method of joining the game. The number of players will be restricted to 100. They will be assigned passwords on a first-come-first-served basis. The play will begin in about 6 weeks, so if you are interested, sign up now! A WORD TO THOSE WHO KNEW! Congratulations! You are all very good. We hope to see you in the "role" of your choice. Thanks for the patience and thanks for accepting our crassness in establishing the network. We really want you to know that we like your style and consider you a valuable asset in "debugging" some of the NETWARE. Once again, thanks. THE GUEST ACCOUNT All persons may now LOGIN as guests. The Non-Game commands will now work for you. Thanks for using this line and be sure to let your friends know what is going on here. We hope that all of you will accept our challange! To LOGIN as a guest type the command "LOGIN" and use the password "XXXXXXXXXX". ***** ANY KEY TO CONTINUE... APPOLOGIES OFFERED. In attempting to choose those who we felt would most benefit us by helping to debug the software, we may have created too great of an illusion. We had over 1000 applicants for valid "GUEST" accounts and selected about 15 or 20 by various criteria. To those who were not given passwords, we appologize. To those who were and believed in us so greatly, thank you for the compliment and we invite you to become players without any initiation fees. A special appology to those whom we may have "insulted" by cancellation of user passwords. We couldn't afford even "benevolent hackers" until we were sure that the software was stable. You also are qualified for entry into the game without entry fees. ICT_1270 ONLINE CMD-L1 ACTIVE .HELP HELP - THIS LIST CAT - DIRECTORY OF FILES TACOP - PAGE TAC OP SYSTAT - STATUS THIS TAC HOSTAT - KRI HOST SITE STATUS FLINKS - LIST FORWARD LINK PATHS FLINK - BRIDGE TO FORWARD LINKS ENTER - ENTER THE KRI-AI NETWORK LOCATE - FIND A USER'S JOB NUMBER NEWS - NETWORK NEWS NETMAIL - NETWORK MAIL NETTALK - LINK TO USER CONSOLE LOGOFF - EXIT THE SYSTEM INFO - EXTENDED HELP APPLY - APPLY FOR GUEST PASSCODE ICT_1270 ONLINE CMD-L1 ACTIVE .LOGIN TAC sign in Password [..........]********** Checking - Invalid account. ICT_1270 ONLINE CMD-L1 ACTIVE .