@Stonic: I'm pretty sure Atari was using the numerical designation for the 2600/VCS sometime before - albeit close to - 1982. Let me put it this way: I got my 1st Atari during Christmas of 1981. It came in the older style non-silver box which admittedly said "Atari Video Computer System" on it. The thing is that I can never recall a time when I ever personally referred to this console as the VCS. It has always been the 2600 to me. Obviously there are people who got them back in 1970's and used the VCS designation. But for me, neither in the approximately 12 to 18 months between when I first learned about and wanted it, up until the present, I've never thought of it as the VCS, only the 2600. It would be great if I could find some proof of this e.g - old ads, department store catalog listings etc. and I'll look around for some, but I'm pretty confident in my own recollections here that the 2600 name was introduced prior to calendar year 1982.

@Tom: Captain Crunch was in fact charged with fraud more than once and served both prison time and probation for it. As far as Wozniak is concerned, he was only making blue boxes, which isn't the same as actually using them to commit fraud. Obviously he must have been using the devices if he was building them, but that would be hard to prove in court. By now the statute of limitations has probably run out on Woz and he will never be charged.