Steve Jobs meet Steve Jobs

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

This clip is just amazing. I almost can't believe it exists. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs started out as phone phreakers, meaning they built devices to let them hack onto the phone network and make calls around the globe without paying.

That in and of itself isn't totally surprising. What is surprising is Jobs' admission that Apple probably would have never even started if he and Wozniak hadn't messed with phone phreaking.

 

It makes me wonder what Jobs really thinks of Jailbreakers.

The Apple T-800 II

Friday, May 08, 2009

Ever wonder what the code the Terminator sees is actually from?

Well someone did, turns out it’s code from an Apple II magazine called, appropriately enough, Nibble Magazine.

Pretty awesome find, but it’s a stretch to imagine the code running this:

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running this:

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