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So let's go ahead and jump right into this book.
And I want to start with a section that discusses what you could call the first Apple product.
The ultimate combination of pranks and electronics and the escapade
that helped to create Apple was launched one Sunday afternoon when Wozniak read an article in Esquire
that his mother had left for him on the kitchen table.
The story described how hackers and phone freakers had found ways to make long-distance
calls for free by replicating the tones that routed signals on the AT&T network.
Halfway through the article, I had to call my best friend Steve Jobs.
Wozniak recalled.
A hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch,
because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle
that came with the breakfast cereal was the same 2600 hertz tone used by the phone network's call routing switches.
It could fool the system into allowing a long-distance call to go through without extra charges.