Actually 950s are what are called a Feature Group B - they weren't PBXs, although they acted the same for "our" purposes. The distinction is technically significant, but it is sorta anal of me to point it out, since I am sure that everyone here knows perfectly well what you mean.

( http://www.interconnection.bellsouth.com/products/swa/SWA_FGB.html )

The "Rainbow" box is real, but all it did was allow a lot of different specific tones to be generated, basically just a DTMF oscillator for tones specific to telco. You could put macros in it and stuff - Hac-Tic published plans for them, I think. There was a fake one called a Blotto Box though (remember King Blotto's BBS?) that involved using a gas-powered generator to send a high voltage surge through telephone lines, supposedly shutting down large areas at once..that is naturally nonsense, but it was written to be sarcastic, like Cult of the Dead Cat was a paraody of those wonderful Cow folks. Wow, I wonder what DRU would be like if it was still up? (NUP was either THRASH or PIGF*CKER, either worked)

X-modem is the "new" name for it, it was actually called Christopherson Protocol (I think that's how its spelled) after Ward Christopherson who invented it. Up until then, we were stuck using University of Chicago's Kermit. Bah.

(insert something about adderall here so this post is remotely on topic)

PS - I am noticing parts of my posts are either missing or being replaced by phrases like "Best if not discussed here" which is without a doubt a respectful and appreciated way for the site admins here to keep the board clean, and it tells me that I (maybe we in general) are pushing a limit we shouldn't push, so I'm going to follow through with a promise I made earlier in this thread, and STFU about the subject.

But *darn* if they weren't they fun times, eh?