Telephone Computer News Today

As long as i think about it, i dont 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. hes 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...

Friend who was not one of the tech kids. >> i met woz when i was maybe 12 years old, 13 years old. hes 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. people dont give their right names. >> ...

People dont give their right names. >> the blue box was a little device that put special tones into anybodys phone. those tones would connect you anywhere you wanted. halfway through reading this, i called steve jobs and started reading it to him over the phone. >> theres a way to fool the entire telephone system into thinking you were a telephone computer. and so open up itself and let you call anywhere in the world for free. you could call from a pay phone, go to white plains, new york, take a...

Device that put special tones into anybodys phone. those tones would connect you anywhere you wanted. halfway through reading this, i called steve jobs and started reading it to him over the phone. >> theres a way to fool the entire telephone system into thinking you were a telephone computer. and so open up itself and let you call anywhere in the world for free. you could call from a pay phone, go to white plains, new york, take a satellite to europe. you go around the world three, four times a...