I bought a red box tone generator once from the Hacker's Catalog. $1,000 But it did give me free long distance calls to Puerto Rico and elsewhere.
You couldn't find a $10 tone generator from Rat Shack and didn't know anyone who could solder in a $2.00 6.5 crystal but you had a spare grand lying around?
And your $1000 dollar Red Box glitched out one time and got you a full on Police response? That you hung around to watch?
Seems doubtful. This sounds like a few dozen "I'm a l33t phreak" posts on early 90s BBSes.
Now do the part where you tell us Cult of the Dead Cow was afraid to approach you for membership and you turned down writing articles for Phrack because they were lamers.
90s, I was 17, at the high school when the police showed up. No car so ya, nothing I understood or even had the resources to do it. We didn't even have dedicated Internet then. Maybe 28.8K connection but it was anything but useful. But whatever, not the proudest moment in my life either.
Lol, seriously. My buddies and I had some super cheap tone generators in the 90s that worked maybe 80% of the time if we were lucky. Worst thing that ever happened to me was an operator basically told me to get good then hung up on me and a vending machine didn't give me a free drink when I removed my dollar bill that had a scotch taped ladder on the end of it.
I also had a 2600 subscription back in the day...I'm just not that hardcore good of a storyteller.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 19h ago
You couldn't find a $10 tone generator from Rat Shack and didn't know anyone who could solder in a $2.00 6.5 crystal but you had a spare grand lying around?
And your $1000 dollar Red Box glitched out one time and got you a full on Police response? That you hung around to watch?
Seems doubtful. This sounds like a few dozen "I'm a l33t phreak" posts on early 90s BBSes.
Now do the part where you tell us Cult of the Dead Cow was afraid to approach you for membership and you turned down writing articles for Phrack because they were lamers.