RE: Programming Humor

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-----
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[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).
>
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and as legend has it, the founders of Apple toyed with electronic
dialers in their pre-Apple days.

Craig

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