25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
3:28 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Vintage Computer
Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
It features John Draper (a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch,
a.k.a. freaky weirdo whom
you should cross the street to avoid), Steve Wozniak, and Kevin Mitnick.
Why Woz is included in this group is not entirely clear, but the producers
of the show are British, so that could explain things :)
I thought it was a great show! But I must admit I missed
the first part, and didn't come in until they showed the
Altair, the Sol, the Pet, and talked to Lee Felsenstein.
Did anyone in the UK happen to tape it? I would have if
I'd known it was on! Here's the Channel 4 link:
http://www.channel4.com/plus/sh01/hackers1.html
It has a lot to do with the blue box of course,
Not just any blue box, but Woz's very own, original blue
box.
As great as it is, Junkyard Wars
Is it just me, or could you imagine Tony Duell's team on a
high-tech version of Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars,
building a PDP-11 out of whatever they can find lying
around? Then toggling in the bootstrap...
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England