ument, a particularly illicit piece of digital property,
was about to resume its long, complex, and disastrous career.

It struck Andrews as fishy that someone not a telephone employee should
have a document referring to the "Enhanced 911 System." Besides, the
document itself bore an obvious warning.

"WARNING: NOT FOR USE OR DISCLOSURE OUTSIDE BELLSOUTH OR ANY OF ITS
SUBSIDIARIES EXCEPT UNDER WRITTEN AGREEMENT."

These standard nondisclosure tags are often appended to all sorts of
corporate material. Telcos as a species are particularly notorious for
stamping most everything in sight as "not for use or disclosure."
Still, this particular piece of data was about the 911 System. That
sounded bad to Rich Andrews.

Andrews was not prepared to ignore this sort of trouble. He thought it
would be wise to pass the document along to a friend and acquaintance
on the UNIX network, for consultation. So, around September 1988,
Andrews sent yet another copy of the E911 Document electronically to an
AT&T employee, one Charles Boykin, who ran a UNIX-based node called
"attctc" in Dallas, Texas.

"Attctc" was the property of AT&T, and was run from AT&T's Customer
Technology Center in Dallas, hence the name "attctc." "Attctc" was
better-known as "Killer," the name of the machine that the system was
running on. "Killer" was a hefty, powerful, AT&T 3B2 500 model, a
multi-user, multi-tasking UNIX platform with 32 meg of memory and a
mind-boggling 3.2 Gigabytes of storage. When Killer had first arrived
in Texas, in 1985, the 3B2 had been one of AT&T's great white hopes for
going head-to-head with IBM for the corporate computer-hardware market.
"Killer" had been shipped to the Customer Technology Center in the
Dallas Infomart, essentially a high-technology mall, and there it sat,
a demonstration model.

Charles Boykin, a veteran AT&T hardware and digital communications
expert, was a local technical backup man for the AT&T 3B2 system. As a
display model in the Infomart mall, "Killer" had little to do, and it
seemed a shame to waste the system's capacity. So Boykin ingeniously
wrote some UNIX bulletin-board software for "Killer," and plugged the
machine in to the local phone network. "Killer's" debut in late 1985
made it the first publicly available UNIX site in the state of Texas.
Anyone who wanted to play was welcome.

The machine immediately attracted an electronic community. It joined
the UUCP network, and offered networ