Greetings ( + )!( + )
On Jul 30, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Adam Vaughn wrote:
Here's my name list:
Beige PowerMac G3: "Beige Box" (after a hacker term for a telephone
lineman's test telephone set)
PowerBook 5300c: "Sculley's Revenge" (should be self-explanatory, lol)
Sony Vaio laptop: "Flicker" (after it's screen problem) (in Linux
mode: "Rebel")
Compaq Armada P133 laptop: "Plan Z" (used it as an emergency main
computer after the hard drive in our old peecee went bad a few years
ago; it was painfully slow even then!)
Mac SE: "cMac" (Think Ancient.)
-Adam
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Mmmm having been in the telephone industry for 25 years, I think that's
"Blue Box" used to make illegal telephone calls on circuits that used
SF (single frequency) as the idle circuit signal. When the SF tone was
sent on the circuit the connection would collapse and a new receiver
would be applied in preparation for the next call. It could then
produce "KP" and "ST," "STP" along with other multi-freq tones, and the
good ones would also do "dtmf (dual-tone)" which was needed to
originate the call to an 800 number.
The telephone lineman's test set is know as a "Butt-set" or
"Butt-in-ski" as it is used to butt into a analog line.
Best Regards, /\*_*/\
Harry (*^_^*)
I know, when people see a cat's litter box, they always say, "Oh, have
you got a cat?" Just once I want to say, "No, it's for company!"
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