From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc
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.
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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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