Also see:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Draper and http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/
He's a facinating fellow all right. He's a 'hard case' & got quite seriously injured while in jail. I had a fairly extensive IRC chat with him just after the 9/11 episode which de-railed his company and at that time he was only a hair's breadth off being made homeless inspite of having made over a million earlier in his life. On 10/6/07, Eliot Blennerhassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this little factoid rather ironic, thought it might be > appreciated by some on this list. > > phone hacker ... "Draper tutuored Wozniak and Jobs in the art of > building their own blue boxes, devices that were capabable of gaining > free -- and illegal -- access to the phone network. The two novice > entrepreneurs sold the blue boxes door to door on the Berkley campus, > several years before they founded Apple Computer" > > From "What the Dormouse Said (How the 60s counterculture shaped the > personal computer industry" by John Markoff (from Chch library) > > Interesting history of computing in silicon valley from late 50s to mid 70s > > -- > Eliot > -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
