Re: Where the Hell is Woz?!

[gkomatsu@uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <33k8cs$2c6v@hopi.gate.net> stever@gate.net writes:
>Did he ever finish that little remote-control gizmo he was
>reportedly working on?

	Interesting you mention this.  From the letters section of the
current issue of 2600 Magazine:

	I've heard tell that Woz's ill-fated CL-9 universal remote
	control was used to hack a traffic signal system. [...]
	The express busses there sent an infrared signal to sensors
	mounted somewhere in the vicinity of the intersection which
	changed the lights from red to green. [...]  Some
	enterprising folks put a CL-9 into "learn" mode, captured
	the signal and then using the CL-9's wildly powerful
	transmitter, were able to zip through properly configured
	traffic signals with a click of the channel changer.

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