I have somehow found myself doing a lighthearted talk on retro hacking this Wednesday. Would anyone here happen to know anything about it?
I have somehow found myself doing a lighthearted talk on retro hacking this Wednesday. Would anyone here happen to know anything about it?
The connection between Cap’n Crunch, phone system hacking, and Apple is a pretty important part of early hacking history.
“Draper heard about the whistle from other phreakers. The whistle easily played at 2600Hz, the perfect tone to, in Apple Inc. [co-founder Steve Wozniak’s words], “seize a phone line.”
Huh, I had always wondered why the hacking magazine was called 2600. Guess that explains it, neat!
I met Captain Crunch around 2012, really nice and still insanely curious about phone systems.
Out of the Inner Circle covered this real well. It was a book printed in the early 80’s