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Do you know PC-Outline/Brown Bag Software?
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j***@gmail.com
2015-07-19 15:01:35 UTC
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I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
Any ideas?
Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
Do you know a way to get past it??

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Marcus Houlden
2015-07-21 00:17:51 UTC
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Post by j***@gmail.com
I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
Any ideas?
Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
Do you know a way to get past it??
Howard's post is from 1997 so he's probably not still around to read it.
However, I assume you could just boot the laptop from a floppy disk, edit
AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove references to whatever starts up the security
system. A quick Google suggests it might be Brown Bag Power Menu but the
company seems to have disappeared in the early 90s with this lawsuit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bag_Software_v._Symantec_Corp.

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Rowby Goren
2022-09-21 13:03:17 UTC
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Post by Marcus Houlden
Post by j***@gmail.com
I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
Any ideas?
Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
Do you know a way to get past it??
Howard's post is from 1997 so he's probably not still around to read it.
However, I assume you could just boot the laptop from a floppy disk, edit
AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove references to whatever starts up the security
system. A quick Google suggests it might be Brown Bag Power Menu but the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bag_Software_v._Symantec_Corp.
mh.
--
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
http://www.houlden.org
Rowby Goren
2022-09-21 13:05:05 UTC
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Post by Marcus Houlden
Post by j***@gmail.com
I'm still using a great old dos outliner, PC-Outline, from Brown Bag
Software. I'd like to check with the author, but have no name in the
manual or program, and old phone numbers don't work.
Any ideas?
Hi Howard - I just started up my old Toshiba 1600 and it runs brownbag software security for User Name & Password (which after over 20 years being laid up, I have completely forgotten).
Do you know a way to get past it??
Howard's post is from 1997 so he's probably not still around to read it.
However, I assume you could just boot the laptop from a floppy disk, edit
AUTOEXEC.BAT and remove references to whatever starts up the security
system. A quick Google suggests it might be Brown Bag Power Menu but the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Bag_Software_v._Symantec_Corp.
mh.
--
http://www.nukesoft.co.uk
http://www.houlden.org
John Friend was the author of Grandview, which apparently was based on PC Outliner. Alas Grandview is not available for Windows and has been abandoned. Too bad.
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