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From: zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts)
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Subject: Re: NeXT DSP for phone calls (was Re: NeXT Dimension as descrambler)
Message-ID: <1990Oct04.124410.25282@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 12:44:10 GMT
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In article <1990Oct3.153407.267@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:
>In article <451@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
>writes:
>> 
>> Or, for day to day use, you can record, analyze (on the MonsterScope) and 
>> playback the tone access codes  used by the telephone company---
>> free phone calls for everyone!
> 
>Shoot, no need to get them off of MonsterScope.  Just get an AT&T Manual
>(the proper one of course).  You make make an application called
>'NeXT Box' or 'Magneesium Box'. <grin>
>
>> Sounds to me like the FCC's gonna have to shut down NeXT :-)
>> 
>
>Just ask 'Ramparts' Magazine....

Early in the days of blue boxing, some folks at the MIT AI Lab hacked
up a tone generator for the PDP-11.  Purely an academic exercise, mind
you :-)  When the phone police came to pocket the offending device,

	Ok, where's the box?

and everyone pointed at this refrigerator sized machine...

--Pat
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