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Captain Crunch is a corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured since 1963 [1] by Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001. Since the original product introduction, marketed simply as Cap'n Crunch, Quaker Oats has since introduced numerous flavors and seasonal variations, some for a limited time—and currently offers a Cap'n Crunch product line.
John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot and the free toy plastic Cap'n Crunch bo'sun whistle used to hack phone calls), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak.
Suddenly, many more people wanted to get into the phone phreaking culture spawned by the blue box, and it furthered the fame of Captain Crunch. In June 1972, Ramparts magazine printed the wiring schematics necessary to create a mute box (a variant of the blue box). [ 17 ]
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Captain Crunch may refer to: Cap'n Crunch, a brand of breakfast cereal and its identically-named cartoon mascot; John Draper, a phone phreaker who used Captain Crunch as an alias; Chris Pronger, a hockey player with that nickname
Club members John Draper ("Captain Crunch"), Lee Felsenstein, and Roger Melen. Most of the members were hobbyists but had an electronic engineering or computer programming background. [11] They came to the meetings to talk about the Altair 8800, to review other technical topics, and to exchange schematics and programming tips. [12]
John Thomas Gegenhuber (born April 1961) is an American actor and voice actor.Since 2013, he has been the voice of Cap'n Crunch.Raised in Palatine, Illinois, his earliest screen-acting credit was in the 1986 PBS telefilm Under the Biltmore Clock.
Bob Keeshan was born to Irish parents [3] in Lynbrook, New York. [4] After an early graduation in 1945 from Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York, during World War II, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, but was still in the United States when Japan surrendered.