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 wer