had a lot of computer ability that went beyond anything he could possibly teach me in school. he knew that as long as i was in class, i was just going to sit around playing pranks on the other students like wrapping hair wires around certain circuits so when they plugged in their radio, it would blow up. as long as i think about it, i don't think i ever had one friend who was not one of the tech kids. >> i met woz when i was maybe 12 years old, 13 years old. he's the first person i met who knew more electronics than i did, and one of the things that woz and i did is we built blue boxes. >> one day i picked up a magazine and started reading a story about phone freaks and blue boxes. >> when phone freaks have a convention, as they did in the ballroom of a seedy new york hotel lately, masks are given out at the door.