TAP No. 10 - Black Box

(REPORT THE PERVERT Wado éives YoU TH/S, KIDS! GREAD THIS) The Boston Peoples Yellow Pages is $1 and well worth it. Writetto dem at 351 Broadway, Cambridge,Ma. 02139. Or write to People Yellow Pages at Emmaus House, 241 E. 116 St.,NY,NY 10029. It's free but they need contributions to stay alive so help them out ,OK? While you're doing that, you'll want to have a PYP in your own com- munity if you don't already. Write to the above about forming one, or just do it, or if one is forming, help. But make sure to publicise YIPL and some of our articles in it, and write us if you need pub- licity or our back issues. There are so many radio stations , and papers in your community that need feature articles on things like YIPL that it isn't funny. Go to these places and tell them you'll prepare a show on phone politics and technology. If you receive’ this, you are hereby autho- rized to represent YIPL in your community and should start doing so immediately. Its absolutely legal, but that shouldn't stop you. START YOUR OWN LocAL CHAPTER OF YIP! : NUMBER 10 MAY 1972 -BE SURE TOWRITE TO: Vocations for Social Change Box 13,Canyon,Ca. 94516 . and New England Free Press 791 Tremont St.,Boston,Ma. 02118 Ask them for free bibliography. Write to them today before you forget. : Gl o M) \ Md s = > s 2 Fst 33 a = _ Sect PF 2S ESE 5 Wgyeuwy, Of é $ zrVMae Egb so oO ~esat 2 2e50a xZ£EERBLTIeWS a cee Beer sek? mT ~~ - sOhP LES PEGE e wo Zz25 5% E3288 ZESPTAX we FEG Szo rae iz <2*zsauast 7 SE &Bvwu vse a GS FS>> 2 ~~yvea 32 ~R ape eee ~t So euvre@y SaSerk z= w GHBoy &W sr F% WV? 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Sunday I tried to call London and the overseas operator got suspicious and put a recorder on the line so I hung up the phone and ran across the street and a pig car came within 30 seconds. Whew! I didn't know you could get a pig that fast even if you called for one. Tell everyone about being careful with over- seas operators? Keep on dialing.M.F. Somewhere,U.S.A. Dear YIPL, I have located a supplier for No. 14 brass washers and some info concerning them. Most hardware stores will not carry them for brass is too expensive. If you get them at a store don't ask for No. 16 or they might not know what you're talking about. Ask for 11/16 outside diameter,with 1/4 inch inside diameter. Your best,cheapest supplier will be an industrial mill supply house. Look ‘em up in the yellow pages under mill supply or electrical supply. Ask for_#14 L Brass flat washers. Pay cash,convince them to sell to you wholesale, and don't sign any sales slips! Love and Struggle, C.R. Louisville ,Ky For SALE- We are selling T-shirts sten- REO t WATE 3. Here's a little trick I picked up & I'm letting you know in case there is a need to stop traffic in L.A. The signal boxes on cor- ners of streets that control §& regulate the lights can be opened by a sharp blow with ones fist on the side of the box even level with the keyhole. Now the door will swing open and one can con- trol or stop or freeze the signal. Can be useful if you're in a hurry. ciled with a big red fist to raise money for our local high school underground in Louisville. Send $1.50 to:T-shirt Deal, c/o Charlie Rosenberg ,3718 Rouge Way, Louisville,Ky. 40218 Thanks a lot folks. Dear YIP Line people, We urge you to organize with us a mas-— sive telephone campaign in your home community aimed at reaching as many households and businesses as possible. We suggest using the following method to once again make the war a public issue. Our major method will be a phone calling campatgn consisting simply of the follow- ing: "Hello,I called to ask you to think about whether Nixon lied about ending the war. Thank you." We believe that putting the message in the form of a non-rhet- orical questiog is both more thought pro- voking and less alienating. This campaign will include newpaper ads and media invol- vement carrying the simple message ;That Nixon lied about ending the war. Please join us. "The Nixon Lied Campaign" 424 North Aurora St.,Ithaca,N.Y. 14850 Dear Friends, It has come to my attemtion that Bell Tel has developed a device similar to the Tele- command except that it does not have to be installed in your phone. It can be connected to the main box in the basement of an apart- ment building or on a telephone pole for a house job. To defeat this infernal device, you can use a S.P.S.T. switch to turn off the speaker and mouthpiece yet allow calls to come through. From the phone handset, the red and the white wire both go to the same terminal on the phone block. Make them both go thru a switch when you want to be sure the Telecommand isn't being used. -The Old Wazoo Te HANDSET PHONE . BLOCK WHITE IMIVALS MSIE PHENE) OTHER PIG LINES TO TIE UP DAILY: Avis(ITT)-800 621 8430 (Area 312) Sheraton Hotels-800 -325 3535 TWA- 800 621 6640 (Area 312) Holiday Inn-800 621 $511(Area 312) For other areas,call 800 555 1212 for Watts Information. Remember, it's all FREE! When writing to YIPL, always place stamp 1§ envelope. Most of our mail comes this-way. ; A load of people have been writing us that our Super-Duper Project is defunct when they try to make it work. They also have been saying that the circuit on page 78 of Steal This Book is hetter or its worse or what the hell is it etc. Let's clear up the mystery. The aforementioned circuit in Steal can he used to receive free incom- ing calls. However, we have tried both and prefer ours for the following reasons: 1-The huge capacitor is hard to fit inside a phone. A large number of MFD.'s is necessary in that circuit, and since 90 volts comes down your line each ring, 200 working volts is needed to prevent destruction of the capacitor. 100 MFD. at 200 volts is a big fucker. The large number of Mfd.'s is used to essentially "pick-up" your phone for an instant, as must be done manually in our unit. This pickup stops the ringing but is not long enough to start the billing. That's the whole secret to Bell's billing equiptment. Their newest system is foolproof but hardly in use . anywhere. You know if your area has the unbeatable system if your dial tone comes on’ immediately upon lifting switchook, rather that 1/2 second later, but most areas have the delay. If you have tried a unit and it disconnects your call a few seconds after you answer on "Free", try to make the operation of answering as fast as possible. That is, pick up the phone on normal and as fast as you can switch to "Free". If you don't give it at least 1/10 second it will ‘ probably continue to ring, so try giving it a little more, and so on. By picking up on "Normal" and waiting more than 1/2 second or so and then switching to "Free" you essentially pick up and then hang up, so you get disconnected in a few seconds. 2- The large capacitor in the Steal circuit can cause sparks, hence the 10 ohm resistor across the switch. You might get a shock. 3-When you pick up on "Free" in the Steal circuit it automatically answers it, immediately. In our circuit picking up on "Free" will allow you to hear thé caller, who may have been told in advance to be talking while it rings so you can hear him and know to answer Free, by then hanging up, flipping switth- to normal and then-Lift and Flip as usual. This can avoid embarrasing moments when a friend calls with an operator on the line who ° might get suspicious. Try to only answer with "Free" method when you know who's calling, but if you can't then prearrange with friends to talk or sing into phone during first few rings to tip you off. That's why we published ours. By the way, both lines will let you listen to your line without "picking up" your phone. Just flip to "free" and listen to your empty line. Hear repairmen and repairwomen placing taps and talking to each other while they do it. Flip to "Normal" and hear the dial tone come on, as the phone equiptment thinks you've just picked up. It's fun! The capacitor can alert the phone co. if its too big, too. No bigger than 1 Mfd.,please, and be sure the unit has no + or -- on it; most don't. he Computer Says No See Issue 11 for a simple version of the Super-Duper Project! SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A computer programmed to y “no” in a feminine voice has been enlisted by the ephone company to stop fradulent credit card callts. ‘The computer, in a secret loration In California, has evented completion of some 80,000 bogus Us Since it began tipping off operators in ial, assistant vice president for operati Tephone Co. " When a credit card call 1s placed, the operator key- nehes the card number into the computer circuit, If e number checks out, the operator hears a recorded male voire say: “Okay.” . If the number Is a phony, the voice says: “No” re- ats the number and says “No” again. (2 inches lower than normal on ind saves us a lot in postage. 2LO1 "ve HOWWN “AVGIUS “1SOd HYOA MIN BACK ISSULS ; Back issues are §0¢ cach, and the following are available. Blue Box information and story plus tuning hints. Credit curd calls and how not to pet caught. Pay Phone Issue. Super-Duper Project(Free incoming calls). To those working on other circuits for public use, we urge you to send them in to.us for publication when fully tested. We will be publishing other interesting ideas for projects from time to time. Thanks to all those who write letters and circuits. Even if they're not used, we test those we can and condense the information to pass it along to you readers. We still necd information slugs and machines and which ones do and don't work and how tu make them work. Do some experimenting around and let us know. YIPL does not publish these incredibly great and useful pieces of info in order to see them put to use. We publish simply so that people can sit back and stare at interesting electronic circuits,which have been known to have a soothing effect upon baby rats and presumably humans, too. COMMUNITAS- A new community journal for those interested in coming together with others while retaining a degree of activity with the rest of the world. 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