reverse engineering fight stories


sometimes don't have source formula need shelter operative way black box. any fun fight stories?



here's mine:



some years ago i indispensable rewrite device engineer i didn't have source code. device engineer ran an aged cp/m microcomputer party dedicated phototypesetting accessory by sequence port. roughly support phototypesetting accessory accessible me.



i finally hacked together sequence pier guard dos pc mimicked responses phototypesetting machine. i cabled dos pc cp/m accessory started logging information opening out device engineer i feed information by cp/m machine. enabled me figure out handshaking encoding used device engineer re-create an homogeneous dos machine.



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