How RadioShack Helped Build Silicon Valley — wired.com

Steve Wozniak still laughs telling the story of the TV jammer. He’d built a tiny transmitter that he concealed in his hand, and he took it down into the basement of Libby Hall at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he was a freshman. Libby was where students would gather every night, around the only color television on campus. “I would jam the TV,” says Wozniak. “Then, a friend of mine would whack it, and it would go good. I would jam it again, fuzz up the picture. He’d whack the TV and it’d go good. Eventually, they stationed somebody next to that TV every night for weeks, and it was their job to fix the TV, adjust the tuning or whatever until it worked.”

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