Date: Tuesday, 10 July 1984 17:05 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: Miscellaneous Digest V3 #18 Reply-To: {mbx >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} To: {list >udd>Multics>Lippard>misc>misc} Miscellaneous Digest Volume 3 : Issue 18 Today's topics: more net.unix on Multics "Captain Crunch" and AT&T (from TELECOM digest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Monday, 9 July 1984 13:12 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: more net.unix on Multics Date: Monday, 9 July 1984 10:44 mst From: jay at S1-C Redistributed-Date: 9 July 1984 13:08 mst Redistributed-From: Pattin Redistributed-To: {forum >udd>PDO>Pattin>forums>us} >From ut-sally!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Eachus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969 Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mordor.UUCP Path: mordor!ut-sally!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Eachus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA From: Eachus@HI-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Least We Forget: MULTICS Message-ID: <1677@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 16:14:00 PDT Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jul-84 09:38:31 PDT Lines: 11 From: "Robert I. Eachus" I've been waiting for someone to drop this shoe, but you seem to have forgotten that Multics is not dead, but alive and well, and still a much better development environment than Unix. In spite of all the people who think that Ada was designed with Unix in mind, most of the development work was done on Multics. I feel that many of the best features of the program library concept in Ada would not be present without the Multics background of the designers. R. I. Eachus ------------------------------ Delivery-Date: 10 July 1984 12:33 mst Date: Tuesday, 10 July 1984 12:32 mst From: James J. Lippard Subject: "Captain Crunch" and AT&T Date: Wed, 4-Jul-84 20:37:15 PDT From: Lauren Weinstein Subject: "Captain Crunch" and AT&T Greetings. There's a television commercial now floating around the networks that has some real "hidden" humor. It's from AT&T, and starts off with a super that says, "AT&T is in cereal." It then proceeds with a voiceover: "When the makers of 'Captain Crunch' cereal decided to put a treasure map into their boxes of cereal, they also put in something else that turned out to be a REAL treasure!" The commercial then goes on to explain that the "treasure" was an 800 service number for kids to call. Now, why is this commercial funny? Well, the key goes back to the dim, early days of the phone phreaks back around 1970, when the makers of Captain Crunch put something in their cereal boxes that turned out to be a treasure for lots of potential phone phreaks, and the start of major problems for AT&T. The treasure? The infamous Captain Crunch whistle. This was a small plastic whistle which happened to precisely emit the proper tone for forcing a "clear forward" on the standard toll circuits. While the phreaks quickly advanced to more sophisticated devices (the famous "blue boxes") the distribution of the Captain Crunch whistle probably serves as a good marker for the start of the phone phreak era, which is now finally drawing to a close as CCIS circuits replace the old voice-frequency controlled trunks. It was from the Captain Crunch whistle that one of the more "visible" phone phreaks, who called himself Captain Crunch, took his name. His actual name was John Draper, and his name still pops up from time to time since he seemed to have considerable trouble learning when to stop playing his games, and was repeatedly arrested. Anyway, I thought the promotion of a "treasure in the Captain Crunch box" by AT&T was worthy of note. If this doesn't demonstrate that we're in a new era of telecommunications (for better or worse) nothing does. --Lauren-- ------------------------------ End of Miscellaneous Digest ***************************