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He's like a legend to people often sold as being the first blueboxer, but in fact this is not close to being true. It's been only a few weeks ago that I got in touch with Cap'n Crunch. I expected some sort of a phreak willing to talk about the glorious days and being fanatic about what we did back then. However, the guy who I met was not even close of being a nerd. He rather looks and acted like some strange wannabe-business man who didn't really have much luck in his life, always looking for opportunities to share with other retards around the corner, without having the slightest knowledge about what he is actually talking about. Crunch was very unsophisticated in what made him so famous, there was not a single minute where I had the feeling I talked to someone who knows what he's talking about. Crunch actually had interest in the party line system that I was developing, but he never even really cared about the technology being used, he didn't even lift his eyebrows when I told him that even the CCITT5 standard was embedded into the system just for the f--king fun of it. All he wanted to know: If it would be possible to earn a buck or two selling it to local Californian companies.