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SummerCon '87; Lets Party! Friday Afternoon-Evening, June 19, 1987
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Lex Luthor and The Leftist arrived at St. Louis Center and called for further
directions. After a long and tiring ordeal, they finally learned how to reach
us. Unfortunately it was rush hour and it would take them some time. We
killed an hour and before long they joined us at Best Western.
After introductions were made, Tuc called Lex out into the hall, and then they
in turn called me, Taran King, and Bill From RNOC as well. The topic of
discussion was Dan The Operator who had hinted earlier that he was going to
get a picture of Lex Luthor, without his knowledge. Less than 3 minutes
later, Ninja NYC followed by Dan The Operator (tape recorder on) sneaked out
the window and tried to reenter the hallway undetected. Ninja had no way of
knowing what we were discussing and thus allowed Dan to come with. Suddenly
we all started to run towards Dan with the intention of beating the hell out
of him. However, he sneaked back into the room through the window.
Once the excitement was over we headed out to dinner. It was mostly
uneventful, except for the conversations on the way. I don't know what went
on in Tuc's car, but in mine we discussed Dan. We split into two groups, one
went to Imo's (a pizza joint) and the rest of us (Bill From RNOC, Ninja NYC,
Lex Luthor, Tuc, The Leftist, and myself) went to a regular sit-down
restaurant. We discussed all sorts of different things both phreak and
non-phreak related, but again the main topic was Dan.
Soon we were joined by the others and we left to go back to Best Western where
we found The Disk Jockey, LOKI, and Control C. These guys came extremely well
prepared. They rented a station wagon somewhere in Michigan and filed it with
a cooler (you can guess what was inside that), tons of magazines, manuals,
electrical equipment, a mobile phone transmitter/receiver, and Control C's IBM
PC, hard disk drive, and modem.
After which, Phantom Phreaker, Doom Prophet, Data Line, Forest Ranger, Bit
Master, and another friend of FR's showed up. SummerCon '87 had begun. It
was just a big party from then on, with the regular hotel party actions. Data
Line had brought lots of TeleComputist back issues to the TeleComputist room
and was distributing them around.
At different times during the night, the elevators were jammed and several
people at the Con decided to go up on the roof. However, many of them also
decided to search for the hotel's PBX system. Somewhere along the way,
Control C, The Leftist, Lucifer 666, Cheap Shades, and I found ourselves
locked inside the staircase of the main building.
The doors only opened from the outside, except at the bottom. Unfortunately
opening the door at the bottom would result in sounding the fire alarm in the
building. This was bad news because that was the last thing we needed. Even
if it wasn't our fault there would be complications. So the five of us split
up and each took a door to bang on. The hotel was mostly empty in these
areas, but I knew that there were people on floor ten. So Lucifer 666 and I
ran up ten flights of stairs and pounded on the door until we finally got a
response, several in fact and many of the people weren't happy (it was after
11 PM). Before too long we had rounded up the rest of our crew and made it
back to the rooms just in time to say good-bye to Phantom Phreaker and Doom
Prophet who were leaving for home (they would return for the Con tomorrow).
Several more hours of partying commenced, as well as hourly pizza deliveries.
Everyone was having a great time, however as the night dragged on, the concern
regarding Dan The Operator and his camera (and other things) grew. He had
been found already talking to John Maxfield once that night on the payphones
and had been caught asking questions about several of the people at the Con.
It wasn't long before the word "TeleTrial" began to be chanted by most of the
Con-goers.
The interested parties gathered in the TeleComputist room and the
interrogation began. Dan The Operator's explanations of events that evening
had been proven false as they contradicted each other. The next step was to
search his belongings. Forest Ranger led the prosecution and started through
Dan's notebooks. In it was information about several of the people at the con
and Taran King's and Forest Ranger's addresses (Dan had been to both their
homes where he could have found the addresses). There were also phone numbers
belonging to people that several Con-goers called. Obviously Dan had been
keeping his eyes and ears open in order to gather information.
Dan became worried when FR wanted to search his suitcase and they stepped
outside for a moment. For some reason Dan was worried about us seeing his
dirty underwear. Now why would he become so frantic about dirty underwear
unless there was something especially dirty about it. You can come to your
own conclusions about this one. Anyway, Dan brought all sorts of electrical
equipment with him, including welding equipment and light switches and things.
The most hilarious item that he brought was Garfield the cat, a stuffed animal
that he slept with.
The camera, tape recorder, film, and tapes were confiscated for later
examining and being that is was around 4 AM, everyone decided to get some
sleep.
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SummerCon '87; Conference Time Saturday, June 20, 1987
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Taran King, Cheap Shades, and I arrived back at Best Western around 12 AM.
Most of the other Con people were either still asleep or out for breakfast.
By 12:45 almost everyone was back and we proceeded to the "Kitty Hawk Room."
Some of the clothing worn at the Con reflected the person's interests.
Bill From RNOC - Computer Hacker (pic)
Lex Luthor - VAX/VMS Rules!
Tuc - UNIX Bozo