thanks for the correction, getting old here.

I've got some freeware software that emulates a blue box
with a SoundBlaster card.

I could actually use it to dial the phone with a speaker held close.
Though it worked one day ( only local calls) the next day
it completely failed to operate.
Wonder if the phone company noticed it and altered somethinhg?

-> CA>>>> Jobs was a professional college student until he
-> CA>>>> persuaded WOZ to sell Apple computers. Jobs is a
-> CA>>>> goof-off content with 2nd place where there is less
-> CA>>>> stress and more than enough money to satisfy his needs.
-> CA>>>> WOZ just seems to not care about money at all. 

-> >> i wonder which one of the got them involved in manufacturing
-> >> blueboxes?? 

-> WC> That was Mitnick AKA Captain Crunch. 

-> Close ... 

-> "To facilitate later social engineering they (Mitnick and
-> companions) planted their pseudonyms and phone numbers in a
-> rolodex sitting on one of the desks in the room. With a
-> flourish one of the fake names they used was "John Draper," who
-> was an actual computer programmer also known as the legendary
-> phone phreak, Captain Crunch," 

-> From: http://www.takedown.com/bio/mitnick.html 

-> WC> He even designed a board for the Apple that would have been
-> WC> a super blue box but it was never incorporated into the
-> WC> machine. 

-> Steve Wozniak hired Draper and together they designed what WOZ
-> considered a 'better modem' that he fully intended to
-> sell/install into the Apple computer until the FCC got wind of
-> his idea and warned him not to. :-) 
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