A better one is:  What was the movie name of the hacker "cerealkiller"
in 'Hackers' and how does that name relate to 2600.

Dennis

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:55, Dennis Rowe wrote:
> 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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