I guess it all started in college (UCSC) in a microprocessor design class (probably '85 or '86ish)
It was a cool class where we putting together little z-80 microprocessor systems on proto boards.
One of the earlier assignments was to find some little electronic device, rip it appart, and by looking at
the chips and circuits inside, try and figure out how the thing works...
That gave me the itch, and the interest to open stuff up and mess with it.
When I say I've hacked all this stuff, most of it is really not hacking in the true sense...
I mostly just look up what other people have done and then follow thier instructions.
Hacking in the true sense, is actually figuring out how to do the modification..
I guess the first thing that I hacked was an old cable tv box (back in the day..) where you could
open up the box, swap a chip, and basic cable became everything cable...
CB Radios were fun to hack, this was pre-internet, I think I got some tidbits off usenet or somewhere, but I did do the
hacking on these... by figuring out how the channel selector translated to flipping bits on the PLL chip, I
was able to add a switch on the high bit of the pll selector and get a bunch of extra channels.
That was a fun trick, and I fixed up a bunch of friend's cb so we could all talk on the lower channels.
Beyond that..
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