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28 Jan 2009, 5:44 pm

I've been on this board for almost four years by now, and I reached most 2600. Why is that worthy of note? There is a magazine for hackers called 2600, named after a 2600-hertz tone, a telephony signal used in phone phreaking (a precursor to computer hacking).



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28 Jan 2009, 11:32 pm

Funny before you mentioned the hacker thing I was thinking the old hacker forum on Usenet, alt.2600.



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29 Jan 2009, 5:03 am

Aspie1 wrote:
I've been on this board for almost four years by now, and I reached most 2600. Why is that worthy of note? There is a magazine for hackers called 2600, named after a 2600-hertz tone, a telephony signal used in phone phreaking (a precursor to computer hacking).


2600MHz, yeah! Let's buy some Captain Crunch, get the whistle and make some free international calls! :D



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29 Jan 2009, 5:04 am

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29 Jan 2009, 12:58 pm

And the Atari 2600 is pretty great, as well ;)


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29 Jan 2009, 1:05 pm

DeLoreanDude wrote:
Aspie1 wrote:
I've been on this board for almost four years by now, and I reached most 2600. Why is that worthy of note? There is a magazine for hackers called 2600, named after a 2600-hertz tone, a telephony signal used in phone phreaking (a precursor to computer hacking).


2600MHz, yeah! Let's buy some Captain Crunch, get the whistle and make some free international calls! :D

The tone was 2600 Hertz (not Megahertz), and was effective only on analog-based trunking systems. Now that trunking systems have all gone digital, my trusty old hand-crafted "Blue Box" is just another tone generator. :(


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29 Jan 2009, 3:29 pm

Fnord wrote:
DeLoreanDude wrote:
Aspie1 wrote:
I've been on this board for almost four years by now, and I reached most 2600. Why is that worthy of note? There is a magazine for hackers called 2600, named after a 2600-hertz tone, a telephony signal used in phone phreaking (a precursor to computer hacking).


2600MHz, yeah! Let's buy some Captain Crunch, get the whistle and make some free international calls! :D

The tone was 2600 Hertz (not Megahertz), and was effective only on analog-based trunking systems. Now that trunking systems have all gone digital, my trusty old hand-crafted "Blue Box" is just another tone generator. :(


I knew that actually, it was a typo, probably due to the fact I write "MHz" a lot more than I write "Hz".

You made a blue box? Cool! :)