Years ago, there was (supposedly) a Biker dude known as "Captain Crunch" for his ability to dial out free long distance with a toy whistle that came packed in boxes of cereal by the same name...
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:37 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > In fact, the whistle-a-phone-number question is based on the real-life case > of Joe Engressia - a.k.a "The Whistler". Born blind, he had perfect pitch, > and developed the ability to dial by whistling the number tones as a kid. A > quick Google will get you a lot of other information about the old-school > Phreak's and their techniques and exploits (before the criminals mugged it > all up). > > Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > I was scoring ~ 70% up to around question 200. Then my dinner brake > > ended. Logically, if I kept going I would have hit something just shy > > of wizard :) > > > > But seriously, I would love to meet the person who could whistle a phone > > number :) I could make my commodore 64 whistle a quarter sound that was > > accepted by most payphones even after an analog transfer to a 4 track > > tape. But I really doubt a person could do a whole phone number, from > > tone memory. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > jdawg > > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:43 PM > > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > Subject: Re: Programming Humor > > > > Dazed_75 wrote: > >> There has been a lot of this over the years but this collection is > >> mostly good and even the old stuff is still funny. So take a look at > >> http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/ and specifically at his > >> Saturday August 23 post if you are looking at this at a later date. > >> > >> > > this brings back a LOT of memories, of when I worked at DEC. > > has anyone ever read all volumes of the BOFH series? I have. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
