 So this story might be a theoretical story. I'm not gonna say whether this is a true story or not But if it did it would include me About 20 years ago working at a store and again, I'm not gonna confirm or deny anything in this story It's a good story though so Theoretically me in the late 90s working at a store very quiet store You know only a few customers a day and for the most part I worked alone sitting there Waiting for customers to come in very boring Luckily I did have this Toshiba laptop, you know running Windows 98 at the time probably and With a nice little floppy drive on the front. Well the register For this place was a DOS based register, which I think a lot of places still use which is scary and I had to do inventory stuff in the store occasionally So the manager gave me the password to get into the the section of the computer to do Inventory stuff and the password was one two three four Well, you know I'm doing that and then you know I'm done with that and I'm sitting there bored again And I'm going through now all these menus that I didn't couldn't didn't have x to before and there's one exit to DOS prompt like yes click Password one two three four did not work. So obviously it was a different password to get to the DOS prompt Oh, well, that would have been fun. Well, the front of the machine did have a little flap that flipped down And there was a floppy disk so I brought in a bootable floppy disk put it in there. It didn't work Oh, well, well, you know time goes by I'm cleaning out underneath the register And I find the boot disks that are for the register. So I put one in and have restart the register and It's starting like yes. Yes. I'm gonna get a prompt of some sort and it asks for a password and I'm like One two three four. No, it didn't work. Oh, well eject the floppy hit enter Get a message up on the screen disk in drive a Not found what drive would you like to go to? C enter All of a sudden I'm at the DOS prompt and I have full control over this machine and I can get into every folder now this is back in the 90s and At the time when you would get a receipt and you pay by credit card your full credit card number and expiration date Are printed on the receipt? That's just how things worked back then. It's stupid. I know well This machine everything was text based on it, which was nice. A lot of the database stuff was just Text with with tab delimiters So I was able to go in there and change I could change the price of stuff Which I technically had the ability to do before but just by going in with a text editor Which you know at the problem that is type you type in edit in the name of the file I go in there and change stuff. I could change the messages on the receipts You know where it says the store name and the address that the bottom would say Thank you for coming. Please shop again or whatever I could change those messages because I found all the text files for those things and Also, I found that it stored like a month or two of every see everything the register receipt printed went to one long text file Which means everyone's credit card. I'm now I didn't I didn't don't get me wrong I didn't steal anyone's credit card numbers, but I just blew my mind that all that was just sitting there that anybody had access to it and I just thought it was so cool and I found a game on there called nl snipes, which you can actually Google there's a wiki on it and It's basically like a tech tech space maze where you're a little smiley face with your initials and you go around shooting these little happy faces, so it's there and Like I said this store the thing about this was I was really really bored at this job most time because I was either cleaning the store or sitting there doing nothing and So now I had a DOS prompt I brought a floppy disk that had miss pac-man on it and I installed miss pac-man on the rich I don't know if I installed it or just played it off the floppy But I played miss pac-man on a little little monochrome screen about this big I just sit there playing miss pac-man and the problem was when customers would come in I would have to quickly quickly reboot the machine and would take five minutes for the register to reboot So I do that and I try not to do that too often because it did Log every time the computer register reboot So I try go in there and at the beginning of the day put miss pac-man on there And then when a first customer came in reboot it Um, but sometimes the customer come in know where they want they come up and I'd be like Try to scan them like sorry computers running slow. Sorry about that So slow computer and it would really just be booting which it was a slow computer But it was because I was playing miss pac-man on the machine And it would take like I said three to five minutes or something crazy like that for it to to fully boot into the register program So that's the first part of that story The second part gets even more interesting. So next time I'll tell you about that. Have a great day