> Up until about a week or so ago, my grandmother (who is 76) was STILL
> renting her phone! I didn't even know that was still possible! And I was
> kind of pissed off to hear that the phone company would have the audacity
to
> continue charging her for it - she's been renting the thing since the
> >
> >Weren't they called blue boxes? Or was that something else?
>
> Ah, boxen. I have a beige box (aka lineman's handset) here at home that I
> built myself. I read a bunch about the other colours of boxen but never
> really did much with them. The Whacked Mac archives used to have a load
o
--- Rick King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I feel terribly old. At 38, I think back on 18.
> I just can't conceive of being 18 anymore. I have
> socks that are that oldhehehehe I remember
> having that wonderful old Western Electric rotary
> dial phone when I was growing up. I also
My Reply follows quote. On 07/08/2001 17:30
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick King)
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>Now I feel terribly old. At 38, I think back on 18. I just can't
>conceive of being 18 anymore. I
>Now I feel terribly old. At 38, I think back on 18. I just can't
>conceive of being 18 anymore. I have socks that are that
>oldhehehehe I remember having that wonderful old Western
>Electric rotary dial phone when I was growing up. I also remember
>having a black and white tv. Ki
Now I feel terribly old. At 38, I think back on 18. I just can't conceive of being
18 anymore. I have socks that are that oldhehehehe I remember having that
wonderful old Western Electric rotary dial phone when I was growing up. I also
remember having a black and white tv. Kids tod
Amber Rhea wrote:
> Up until about a week or so ago, my grandmother (who is 76) was STILL
> renting her phone! I didn't even know that was still possible! And I was
> kind of pissed off to hear that the phone company would have the audacity to
> continue charging her for it - she's been renting
At 02:15 -0700 on 07/08/01, Alex Allee wrote:
>on 8/7/01 1:42 AM, Adam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> These "tone diallers" were/are also popular with what alot of people call
>> 'hackers' as some types (most notoriously the Radio Shack ones) can be
>> re-crystalled and then used to defraud the
At 2:54 PM -0700 8/7/01, Gary Adams wrote:
>I think anytime a company fails to notify people about things they should
>have to refund the money back to when the law was passed plus interest. If
>things like that happened they would get more ethical and honest. Its like
The Bell companies notif
I think anytime a company fails to notify people about things they should
have to refund the money back to when the law was passed plus interest. If
things like that happened they would get more ethical and honest. Its like
MicroJunk upgrades before they almost drove Word Perfect and others out o
on 8/7/01 3:00 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Heh, I'm 30 and remember when there was ONE style
> of phone available, supplied by "Ma Bell". They
> had about 3 colors to choose from. They were rented,
> not sold. Eventually, if you wanted, you could
> buy your own phones, but th
And *none* of them are as robust as the Western Electric phones. Some improvement.
Jim
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
>
> Heh, I'm 30 and remember when there was ONE style
> of phone available, supplied by "Ma Bell". They
> had about 3 colors to choose from. They were rented,
> not sold. Eventually,
--- Alex Allee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 8/7/01 1:42 AM, Adam at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > rotary
> > phone (Geez, I'm 18 and I remember these)
>
> Don't worry about it, I'm 19 and *use* a rotary
> phone.
Heh, I'm 30 and remember when there was ONE style
of phone available, supplied
on 8/7/01 1:42 AM, Adam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> These "tone diallers" were/are also popular with what alot of people call
> 'hackers' as some types (most notoriously the Radio Shack ones) can be
> re-crystalled and then used to defraud the coin tolling system used in
> American payphones. S
>Stripped down
> versions often came with answering machines for
> remote control, those were popular with hackers since
> with a little work they could do the same things
> as the more expensive DTMF dialers. :)
These "tone diallers" were/are also popular with what alot of people call
'hackers'
mentioned in the
on-line catalog; I don't know if they can be special-ordered.
Bob
- Original Message -
From: "Gregg Eshelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: DTMF Re: Dra
--- "Bob C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even the oldest version of HyperCard could produce
> valid DTMF tones.:-)
So you could hold a rotary phone up to your Mac
and dial numbers with HyperCard? ;-)
A little unit that was popular in the 1980's was
a small box about 1/2 the thickenss of a p
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