The Radio Shack
Model III - TRSDOS O By Lance Wolstrup
Henry Herrdegen recently wrote a letter asking me if I knew who the 'RUMMY BUZZARD' is? He went on to explain that sector 2 of HERZ50/BLD (TRSDOS 1.3) contains a hidden message for this person.
I had no idea, as a matter of fact, I had never even run across it. However, Henry's info fascinated me, so I began to look for it. Super Utility4 would not display record 2 of HERZ50/BLD ,'n 'file mode', so I seat ched for the message on 8 sectc; by ssclor basis. I finally found it on track 5, S3 "tor 11. Tnai is,! found sc on one disk, dated Wed Jul 1, 1981, but no* on another which, was also dated Wed. Jul 1,1981. S trange - what the heck was RS doing io disks of the same series? The obvious conclusion is Vrtei someone at RS found it and decided chat it wasivt funny arid, rather than making any change to the date or version r,umber, the message was discretely removed. I'll bet some heads rolled over that one!
For those of you tackling Assembly language, here is a short listing that will display whatever data is on track 5, sector 11 on the TRSDOS 1.3 disk in drive :0.
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