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
> 
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