This GitHub repo archives a discontinued repository of CP/M software created between 1979 and 1984, MIT-MC (later moved to SIMTEL20).

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

This GitHub repo archives a discontinued repository of CP/M software created between 1979 and 1984, MIT-MC (later moved to SIMTEL20). It comprises free and shareware code and other files.

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984

#cpm #retrocomputing

[psychotimmy@oldbytes.space]

@amoroso This is interesting from that repo - an essay on the four character passwords users of a bbs picked. Innocent times in more ways than one!

"I was looking in the user's file this morning, and began noticing some of the passwords ..."

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984/blob/main/cpm/7007356/ar63.rcpm/paswrd.fun

[psychotimmy@oldbytes.space]

@amoroso ... as is this - the woes of people destructively hacking in 1981 and how to stop them ...

"Doesn't it really burn you when some jerk logs into your remote CP/M system (that you've spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to put on-line for public use) and promptly tries to steal you blind and crash or ruin your system?"

https://github.com/MITDDC/cpmarchive-1979-1984/blob/main/cpm/7007356/ar63.rcpm/secure.sysdoc

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@psychotimmy We long lost that innoncence.