Don Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Back in 1991 I wrote an e-book. I intended for it to fit on a 5.25 inch floppy diskette (when was the last time you saw one of those?). I wrote it using an IBM PC using DOS. I wrote both the book and the program that ran it. Most of the text was compressed so that the final size for the e-book text and the program that ran it was 261 K bytes (max disk size was 360 K bytes). The name of the e-book is: Pending Global Disasters: Germ War Diary. Its FREE and downloadable from web site www.farviewu.biz Has the e-book been a fair view of the future since 1991. Is AIDS actually a terrorist act? Will we see more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 hi don, nice to meet you. can you switch the file to adobe or something. nothing against you, but i never dload .exe files from non trusted sites. may i ask, are you a time traveler, or a psychic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share Posted August 10, 2007 Hello Ruthless... I guess my problem is to get your trust up to the point where you will read my e-book. My Ham radio call sign is K4IJV. My son's are KI4POX and KI4POY. My son KI4POY got call letter plates on his car. Alabama get his call wrong and the plates came out K14POY. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 thats cool that you wrote the program yourself. is it compatible with xp? and may i ask what model the ibm was? im just curious, i love old pc's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 and i dont have a ham radio, wish i did though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 10, 2007 Author Share Posted August 10, 2007 ruthless, My first PC was a home made one with a Intel 8088 (8 bit cpu) shortly after they came on the market. The IBM PC had an Intel 8086 with 4K of ram (if I remember right). Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogz Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 If you are going to update the book I suggest web based, javascript like this: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/bookflip.htm Or something like it. It will work on mac/pc/linux that way and it would be easy to sell "hosted" ebooks for $4. Let people upload their book and get a link to show it to other people right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 was it anything like this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5885351342753379583&q=8088 http://www.oldskool.org/pc/8088_Corruption man i miss dos. btw, i'll check the file out, ill format if need be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogz Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 ruthless if you format, install Ubuntu instead of windows and then install a package called 'dosbox' and you can run Don's ebook software. http://ubuntu.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 i already have uubuntu, but i can run dos from xp. checking it out now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 i got to page 192. ive gotta take a break from it for a sec and i have a few questions. what excactly am i reading? is it a nostradamus type of thing? are you psychic? is it a true story? and is it really true that the f.b.i. hires anti-establishment types to keep itself in check? if so, sign me up too. the story is very well put together, and i can tell that lots of thought has went into it. i mean ALOT. i am more than impressed to say the least so far. i think i know the "why" for these next few questions, but i'd like to ask just to make sure. what was your reason for creating this program, when it couldve been written in wordpad, or adobe? and did you ever think about making it in a newer coding language, for people who know nothing about dos, or for people who cant run dos? also, for anyone wanting to see this file on windows xp, click start, then go to run, then type command, and a dos prompt will come up. you can also get into dos from the boot screen using the windows xp cd, but that ones a little more complicated. i always format my pc in dos. anyways, great story so far, ill read the rest in a bit. get ready, as i'll have tons of questions when im done, if you dont mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titorite Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 DOS!! DOSS!! R U CHITTING ME!! Online cyber citizens still write word documents on DOS!?!?! WHOAAAA I thought that went out in the 90s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 i love dos. as a matter of fact, i use netstat every day in dos. netstat -n mostly type netstat ? for all the command switches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 11, 2007 Author Share Posted August 11, 2007 ruthless, When I wrote the e-book I was working for CASI-RUSCO (a controlled access (security system) company) in Boca Raton, Fl. I was a hardware engineer/programmer. I got to thinking about the worst possible security problem that mankind could face. Thats what got the e-book writting started. I also, later in the e-book, address some of the things that we need to change to counter the problem. Thanks for looking at the e-book. I hope others will read it... I don't expect that anyone in the "government" will look at it. I have this address label that I put on my mail (ground stuff). Made it myself. Confused State of America -violet color 2008 Vote for this HONEST -2008 is red, HONEST is blue Politician:_________ -all other text is black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 i must say thank you for that book, i just finished it. it was 555 pages correct? as i dont want to miss anything. i have learned alot from this book, and i thank you for the sharing of knowledge. i find it funny that she got prgnant on my birthday. i'll probably have some questions, but right now, i just want it all to sink in. i really hope the government takes notice. it should be mandatory that every government employee read this, and get something from it. once again, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 ruthless, Thanks for reading my e-book. How about passing copies on to others. I don't think any government employees will read the e-book since they will need to each get my permision and none have applied. Did you note my "Confused State of America" tags? Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 I am not going to "update" the e-book. It reads just fine as it is. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogz Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 It reads just fine as it is. Oh indeed, I don't mean to imply it doesn't read 'fine', it does.But more people would be able to read it if it was online and ran multiple platforms, and you could sell hosted ebooks to other authors just like you are/were selling the DOS ebook s/w to others for $4. But maybe you don't want lots of people to read it and you don't want to sell ebooks, I was just offering some input. I'm kinda interested in making an online ebook platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 "But more people would be able to read it if it was online and ran multiple platforms" it runs on multiple platforms. if i can get it to work in xp, then it can work on linux. just wont run on vista prolly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 12, 2007 Author Share Posted August 12, 2007 boqz, Thanks for your response. Have you taken the time to download a copy of my e-book and read it? There is NO WAY any member of our government will EVER read this e-book. Right on the first page it is classified as "SECRET" and we know that all (ALL!!!) members of our U.S. Government never (NEVER!!!) violate any standards. I guess that was my mistake when I wrote the e-book. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted August 12, 2007 Share Posted August 12, 2007 Well, it's unlikely that the Government would pay their employees to check out sites where most of the users pass off as nothing more than crackpots. And the Government is not one to follow it's own Standards *points directly to the torture of suspected terrorists*, well, I guess illegal means legal if you're a Government employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogz Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Don, yes I did run it and play with it for a bit. The 3 of us are not normal PC users though, we are a small percentage of the people on the internet right now. Most people might will find this too hard to use or wouldn't want to run a protected mode .exe from a conspiracy theorist. A web based ebook can keep the top-secret look-and-feel and anyone who can use the internet can read the book. You get a lot more people that way. Ruthless , you are correct, the software does work on multiple platforms now. But it was written for a single platform and relies on emulation. A web based multi-platform application is different. You have to tweak your css and javascript to work on 3 different browser engines. Gecko (firefox), Webkit (Safari, Konqueror), and the other one that most people use that is full of security problems which I shall not mention unless they pay me to advertise for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share Posted August 14, 2007 Thanks for looking at it... BUT did you read it? What I need it for people to read it and give me their reaction. Thanks, Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 18, 2007 Author Share Posted August 18, 2007 ruthless, Have you passed my e-book on to anyone else? Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 i tried to get my wife to read it. other than that, no. i dont know anyone lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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