To easy, Captain Crunch. Thats where Captain Crunch (the phreaker) got his name.
Dennis On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:46, John Hebert wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
