Wow! I enjoyed this story. This could be a hit if made into a film. Would surely win an Oscar. The author must have felt like a geek-hero during the job, consi

Wow! I enjoyed this story. This could be a hit if made into a film. Would surely win an Oscar. The author must have felt like a geek-hero during the job, considering the fact that the Atari-800 released in 1979 and this incident must have occurred sometime around 1979-85 or so. The lines I liked very much... --"and next to it hummed a TEN MEGABYTE HARD DISK, clearly the pride and joy of its owner." --"That’s a modem cable. That’s a modem. Wait, I need to shut the computer down" I was born almost a decade after Atari-800 released. Couldn't understand these terms: "Pen Register" and "Sprint Codes" After googling: Pen Register is a device that maintains phone call lists for a fixed phone line. But does anyone know what "Sprint codes" mean? Googling didn't get me much info.