No legend, and auto dialers were not the only thing either. Jobs and Woz
have openly and reputedly admitted to their early phreaking days.
Including blue and black boxes and I remember seeing one speech where he
regaled a tale of prank calling the pope.  I think I once heard they did
stuff with Captain Crunch, but I don't recall the details

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Craig White
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:52 PM
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Subject: Re: Programming Humor

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:37 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> In fact, the whistle-a-phone-number question is based on the real-life
case of Joe Engressia - a.k.a "The Whistler".  Born blind, he had
perfect pitch, and developed the ability to dial by whistling the number
tones as a kid.  A quick Google will get you a lot of other information
about the old-school Phreak's and their techniques and exploits (before
the criminals mugged it all up).
> 
----
and as legend has it, the founders of Apple toyed with electronic
dialers in their pre-Apple days.

Craig

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