My favorite part is they figured out a whistle toy from a box of Captin Crunch probuced the 2600hz sound needed to hack the phones. This lead to the publication of “2600” a hackers magizine.
Hahaha, I remember that from The Anarchists’ Cookbook.
So, the two Steves (Woz & Jobs) evidently pulled that off at some point, becoming able to place long-distance calls, but it seems that got shut down not too long afterwards…
Computers are just fancy phones.
t. once saw part of a documentary I wasn’t paying attention to decades ago about early computer nerds hacking by reproducing noises over the phone
My favorite part is they figured out a whistle toy from a box of Captin Crunch probuced the 2600hz sound needed to hack the phones. This lead to the publication of “2600” a hackers magizine.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
Hahaha, I remember that from The Anarchists’ Cookbook.
So, the two Steves (Woz & Jobs) evidently pulled that off at some point, becoming able to place long-distance calls, but it seems that got shut down not too long afterwards…