From: THE SPECIALIST      
To: KNIGHT OWL          
Subject: Hey!           
Date & Time: 05/07/91 17:56:27
Message Number 16615

Ok...about 5 years ago, I was in the Army...and I owned an Apple //e.
(Actually, I owned two...a Korean manufactured clone called a Banana --
no kidding.)  Well, I was the only one over there with a genuine //e.
(A rarity overseas.)  And I was also the only one who knew the damn
things inside and out (including a smattering of machine language and
techniques) and I was literally the expert on Apples for all of Yongsan
Compound (the equivalent of an Army post).  I was cracking software 
left and right...but I needed a handle.  Well, my rank at the time was
Specialist E-4, and I was a specialist at Apples, so I took the handle
The Specialist...and I left my handle on all the software I broke...
CRACKED BY THE SPECIALIST.  As a matter of fact, if you went to Korea,
you might find some of my work.  The reason my stuff caught on so well
was because at the time, Apple was switching DOS's.  They provided a 
utility with ProDOS to convert DOS 3.3 to ProDOS, but almost none of
the games would work with it.  (ProDOS, by the way, was far, FAR 
superior to DOS 3.3; a game to load under 3.3 would load in half to 
quarter of the time under ProDOS.)   So, there was a demand for games
converted to ProDOS, and I filled it.  And my stuff caught on, and 
people were bringing stuff to me for conversion to PD.  Games esp.