Hackers: Computer Outlaws

From: John Honniball <John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk>
Date: Wed Jul 25 10:28:12 2001

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Vintage Computer
Festival <vcf_at_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_at_uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 10:28:12 BST

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