And there is another layer on the history of 2600: A proto-hacker in the early days discovered that a plastic toy whistle included in a box of cereal would cause unexpected results when blown into a working telephone handset. The tone of the whistle was 2600Mhz.
Trivia time: What was the name of the cereal? John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: -ray To: [email protected] Sent: 7/31/03 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] 2600 meetings at LSU? On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brad N Bendily wrote: > so, exuse my lameness, but... > > what's "2600"? Very famous underground hacker magazine... well you can get it at Book-A-Million in Hammond so i guess it's not that underground anymore, hahaha. Still some cool stuff... www.2600.com ray _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
