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		aeberbach on June 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where the term "Zero Day" comes from And if you didn't have 16550AFN serial and a USR Courier HST your 0-day was likely to turn into a 3-day... I remember taking advantage of call waiting tones to dump friends offline and steal their places on local multi-user BBS. Good days!

_0nac on June 17, 2014 | [–]

Which is why people bought the much cheaper USR Sportster and used the magic AT command!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRobotics_Sportster_magic_str...

mmaunder on June 17, 2014 | | [–]

I remember that! You're pure evil!

neurobro on June 17, 2014 | | [–]

If they didn't use *70, they deserved it.

konradb on June 17, 2014 | [–]

Oh man I've just remembered my big old mean USRobotics Courier. When I got that, I thought I'd hit the big time.

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