Does the name Mark Bernay ring a bell? He was one of the giants of the "blue box" era. From Slate: "According the New York Times obituary of Apple founder Steve Jobs, after reading [Ron] Rosenbaum's [Esquire] article, Jobs and his partner in founding Apple, Steve Wozniak, 'collaborated on building and selling blue boxes, devices that were widely used for making free — and illegal — phone calls. They raised a total of $6,000 from the effort.'" Rosenbaum article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/... IRL Mark Bernay (http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/; https://twitter.com/phonetrips?lang=en) is Richard Kashdan: https://www.facebook.com/PhoneTrips Very cool guy, alive and well in San Francisco