offer - OS/2 for the PDP-11

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Mon Jan 7 11:08:55 CST 2008


just hack it to do a screen print to the built-in printer :-)


> >> But, do you assert that Diebold knows what they are doing?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, madodel wrote:
> Having been a programmer for a couple of decades, none of the companies I
> have worked for are going to tell a programmer in detail, exactly how to
> code something.  They may specify a language and there might be a set of
> guidelines to follow.  You are given a set of requirements and you code to
> them.  Perhaps security wasn't a requirement.  Though if something as bad
> as this (allowing users to get to a command prompt or a GUI) got through to
> a customer I would seriously suspect the company had little or no quality
> checking.  But as I pointed out there are a lot of photos of crashed and
> hacked ATMs.

a friend who used to work for them says that their ATM work has lower
quality control standards than their voting machines


I might have a lead on a Diebold "debugging keyboard"




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