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

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Subject: Re: Do you know PC-Outline/Brown Bag Software?
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by: Rowby Goren - Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:03 UTC

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), jessica...@gmail.com <jessica...@gmail.com>
> 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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Do you know PC-Outline/Brown Bag Software?	Rowby Goren

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