March 1, 1978 · TAP
TAP No. 49 - More Fortress Fun, TWX Phreaking, Marisat Codes

Two collaborators nicknamed ‘CJ’ and ‘The Professor’ dissect a decommissioned ‘Fortress’ payphone, correcting and refining mechanical details from an earlier issue’s coin-box article and explaining how the coin-relay mechanism actually generates its tone pulses. Also warns that Red Box tone timing drifts with outdoor temperature and walks through a series of coin-drop ‘click’ experiments readers could perform on live payphones to understand the mechanism, without needing to remove anything.
MORE FORTRESS FUN!
Last week, I met with "CJ" and "The Professor" and told
them how much I would like a Fortress Fone of my very
own to play with. About 1/2 hour after they left, they re-
turned with one and gave it to me to open. "The Professor"
was able to pick the upper lock after removing the shroud
around it. It!s only 4 levers. I immediately went to work
on it while "CJ" bashed open the coin box. After he opened
it, we made the following discoveries:
1. The drill pattern you published in #30 for the front
plate would make it almost impossible to get the box open,
because the bolts go thru double sets of slots before going
into the outer shell of the phone. When the rotary plate
is drilled as in #30, it should rotate and retract the bolts
7
2. The right-hand bolt is really wide and protects the
side lock (interlock).
3. The following cutting pattern would be better than a
drilling pattern (providing you have access to the sidé/:
1/8"
Le
1” up above center-line
wide slot Y
R
Front of
Z
of side key.
‘
Z
coin-box
Z 2
Gl
Side key
Z
‘The cut should be 1.2" long, 1/8" wide, and1" deep. It can
be done with a special grindstone drill bit, and will shear
off the interlock mechanism as well as cut the spiral front
plate free so it can turn. (We are checking reports ofa
puller for the cover. If there is such an animal, and if it
does work, you'll hear about it first in TAPIT
4, The tones! intervals are not generated by the coins
pushing levers on the red box mechanism (like everyone
thinks) but by a little relay which reverses the direction of
the wheel that the levers cock. In other words, when a coin
is dropped, the coin pushes a lever which cocks a wheel.
The coin then drops into the drop chute, and the red box
goes thru a 70ms delay to allow the coin to clear the mech-
anism. After that, a unijunction-timer circuit pulls ina
relay which unwinds the wheel until it is back where it
started, The number of times the relay ticks, pulling the
wheel, is the number of beeps. If the wheel went 5 notches
forward, a switch drops, telling the unit to do 35ms bleeps
(for a quarter). However, the first bleep will always be
the same as the above-mentioned
70ms pre-bleep delay,
because the coin will just be clear, and all of the pulses
(bleeps) are actually symmetrical square waves:
25¢:
10¢:
I will restate the specs on these tones because they are
very important and must be known by all TAP readers. The
25¢ tones are 70ms on, 35ms off, 35ms on, 35ms off, 35ms
on, 35ms off, 35ms on, 35ms off, 35ms on, The dime is
80ms on, 80ms off, 80ms on. These can be fudged to 70ms
if needed, and better be generated digitally, because they'lL
fuck up with analog timers, "windows", and analog delays.
‘Then I made a few discoveries myself:
1. Coin Drop Mechanism - In my last letter,
lasked
about the "coin-sense relay" but couldn't figure how Bell
knew about the money. Now I know! First, they use a low
current (20ma) high voltage (60v) relay to release the
money. Second, the relay resets a vane which senses the
presence of the money. This vane cannot be checked by the
operator. However, she can see the current drain caused
by the drop relay pulling in, If the vane hasn't been hit by
money, the coin-drop relay won't pull in even when the
operator tries to make it, The good part is that she can't
check the vane until she drops the money. So it doesn't
matter when you drop your nickel, as long as you drop one
before each time she collects. Also, she can't check it on
.2" down below center-line of side key.
=~
pT
MAR-APRIL 1978
NO. 49
the initial three minutes because that drops automatically,
and so you can talk for at least three minutes for free.
2. The pay phone red box tones drift with the outside tem-
perature. So...
before boxing away, make sure the pay-
phone frequencies match your red box frequencies or you'll
get screwed when you drop your 5¢,
3. As] told you last time, the 25¢ set of tones are 5
beeps, the first one twice as long as the regt:
70 ms J 7 ms | 86 [6 | 35 F256 =| ss [25
anne
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All of the above info is confirmed by an in-depth experiment
which can be done on any phone without taking it out of the
booth!
1,. Drop 5¢ into a pay phone. Listen to the side and hang
up. The relay will pull the wheel back once and click.
2. Drop two nickels into the phone, one ata time. Listen
to the receiver or the side of the phone. When the second
nickel is dropped, two clicks of the relay are heard - as if
a dime had been dropped. .
3. Now for some fun: Drop a nickel, and then a dime.
There are three clicks! Amazing, a 15¢ piece!
4, Now try dropping two dimes right together and you'll
hear both dimes hit the bottom of the coin holding chute
before you hear four clicks! a 20¢ piece!
5. Try a nickel and a quarter and get six clicks (30¢).
6. If you're fast enough, this will work toa:, Drop a
nickel, Then two dimes together and you'll hear the familiar
quarter sequence and not five nickel bleeps.
Whether you are listening to the bleeps thru the receiver
or clicks on the side of the phone, you'll find these experi-
ments interesting.
i
Tf you don't believe me about the timing of the tones on
the 25¢ bleeps, try tape recording them (have a friend call
you from a pay phone and drop money) at 7 1/2 ips ona
reel-to-reel recorder. Slow down the tape on playback to
as slow as possible and mark the tape at the beginning and
end of each bleep. When done marking, measure the marks
and you can determine the tone durations. You will find
most phones adjusted perfectly, whether single tone or mf
phones, So the first bleep is twice as lorig as the rest.
If you should ever have access to.a phone in a relatively
private place, and wish to record the tones interference-
free, get a phone pickup coil from someplace like Radio
Shack (bletch!) and place it 3" behind the top keyhole on the
right side of the Fortress Fone. It picks up the tones fine
there.
Computer Wizard
Some Fortresses must have a mechanism defect. It seems
that they will take two dimes or two nickels - a 50% savings!
Please advise readers to deposit two nickels first land listen
for second dial tone. This is for a 20¢ local call area,
Mugs
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THE PRINCIPLES OF
TWX PHREAKING
by
Cheshire
INTRODUCTION
IN 4974, THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
CO BOUGHT THE TELETYPENRITER
EXCHANGE
¢THXONETHORK FROM THE AMERICAN
TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT. AT&T COULD NOT ENTER DATA
COMMUNICATIONS UNDER 366 BAUD ¢3a
PER SECOND) UNTILL APRIL
19
MEANWHILE.
WHY BIOULD ANY OF THE
INDEPENDENT TELCOS BUILD WHOLE NEM
EXCHANGES FOR THIS PA PELL PLAYTOY?
THEY WOULDN’T, OF
COURSE,
THE’ TRANSLATE
FROM FUNNY THX AREA CODES TO
NORMAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGES. FIND THE
RIGHT EXCHANGE. AND WIN THE TH NETMORK
TRANSLATING Ths EXCHANGES.
THERE 15 AN EASY HAY OF TRANSLATING
AOTHX EXCHANGE, THAT’S bIHEN TT
Is
YEN" TO YOU IN THE THY DIRECTORY
THY AREA CODES ARE USUALLY 514,
719,846. & 916 IN THE UNITED STATES.
FIND 616 TN CANADA SOME THe MACHINES
HAVE REGULAR TELEPHONE NUMBERS,
BECAUSE
THEY WERE INSTALLATIONS BEFORE THE
MODEL 22 TELETYPE BECAME THE STANDARD
OF OF THE THX NETHORK. THESE OLDER
MACHINES HANDLE THEIR: OWN LIMITED
SPEED
CONVERSION. AND COMMUNICATIONS 15:
POSSIBLE BETHEEN THESE OLD MACHIN
ANND THE NEWER MODEL
ANYONE WITH A MODEL 23
COMPUTER TERMINAL SUCH
A COMPUTER DEVICES 1462. TI
TAG. OF TERMIFILEX HT-29
SEND TO A
Tus TERMINAL,
Ws MACHINE ANSHERS
WITH THE SAME "CARRIER" TONE AS A
COMPUTER
» SO YOUR TERMINAL WILL
LIGHT ITS CARRIER LIGHT CIF IT HAS CINE?.
EACH MODEL 32 HAS A PROGRAMMED “ANSHERBACK"
WHEEL IN IT.
IT 15 PROGRAMMED
WITH AN IDENTIFIER OF
26 CHARECTERS
GR LESS THE FIRST THREE CHARECTERS ARE
USUALLY CARRAGE RETURN (CR, LINE FEED
cLE®. PUB OUT (ROO
THE LAST THREE
ARE USUALLY. CR. LF. CONTROL @.
THE
CONTROL © CHARECTOR WILL TURN ON THE
PAPER TAPE READER OF THE DISTANT TERMINAL
CIF IT 1S PROGRAMMED TO DO so.
WHICH MOST ARE? THIS LEAVES 14 CHARECTERS
LEFT FOR IDENTIFICATION. AN EXAMPLE
WOULD BE:
NHLWINGSPR DET.
THIS
IS THE
ANSHERBACK OF THE DETROIT WINGS OF THE
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE. AND WOULD FURTHER
OR EOUIVILENT
SILENT
SEEM TO BE THEIR PR DEPARTMENT.
THE THX NUMBER OF THE WINGS IS $16-221-So023.
AS WE LOOK DOWN THE
LISTINGS FOR DETROIT IN A 1974 OR EARLIER
TMS DIRECTORY (LATER ONES LUMP
A WHOLE STATE TOGETHER? WE FIND LISTINGS
FOR OLDER INSTALLATIONS. THE
EXCHANGES FOR THESE OLDER MACHINES
ARE Z12-S3S. Z13-222, 213-342, AND 343-
755, WHEN WE HIT 222-S@33. WE FIND
THE ANSWERING TONE OF A THX MACHINE.
OTHER THY MACHINES IN DETROIT ARE 810-221-5127
“DETROIT PD DET), 81a-
224-9458 (UNIROVAL DET), AND 816-221-5124
«MED EXAM DET?
DET IS. OF COURSE,
OTHER CITY CODES
FOR NEW YORK, LSA FOR LOS ANGELES,
SFO FOR SAN FRANSISCO, AND
CGO FOR CHICAGO. SMALL COMMUNITIES
HAVE FOUR LETTER CITY CODES.
I DON’T
KNOW THE TWX TRANSLATIONS FOR ALL THE
ABOVE CITIES, BUT THOSE SENDING
THs TRANSLATIONS TO TAP WILL GET A
LIST OF THE FEW CITIES TRANSLATIONS
ARE AVAILABLE FOR.
I HAVE TRANSLATED
CITIES WITH TRUCK STOPS. AND SENT MYSELF
Mi
IGES WHEN TRAVELING.
THE CITY CODE OF
DETROIT.
ARE NvK
ANOTHER POSSIBILITY IS TO MAKE FRIENDS.
WITH SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN A SMALL
OFFICE ¢OR A BRANCH OFFICE OF A LARGER
COMPANY AND USE THEIR THX MACHINE, THE
TRICK THEN IS TO CALL A THY NUMBER
THAT DOES NOT EXSIST AND LET THE PHONE
OMPANY COMPUTER: TELL YOU WHAT NUMBER
IT THINKS YOU DIALED. THIS WORKS FOR
VERY FEW CITIES,
EXAMPLE: THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
CO IN UPPER SADDLE RIVER NJ IS
Si.
IF WE DIAL 916-9e8-22'
ON A THX MACHTNE. WE“LL HERR A
RECORDING SAY "THE NUMBER YOU HAYE
DIALED, 279-2253..." WHICH TELLS US THAT
BY DIALING 261-279-2251 WE CAN REACH
WU SALES UPSR.
IF WE THEN LOOK CLOSELY
AT THE NUMBER GIVEN FOR THE FYI NEWS
SERVICE OFFERED TO TH
RIBERS, THE
NUMBER GIVEN 1S S10—9:
BY DIALING
PP 279-5956 FIND THROWING THE HAND—
SET INTO THE ACCOUSTIC COUPLER,
IR
TERMINAL TYPES
OUT
"HU FYI MALIA THE
RNSHERRACK OF IGM SYSTEM 7 COMPUTER
LOCATED IN MAHMAH NJ.
THIS MACHINE IS
UPDATED ONCE AN HOUR BY UPI OVER DEDICATED
BACKED UP LEASED LINES, AS THE
COMPUTER SENDS ITS ANSWERBACK. IT TRANSMITTS
CONTROL E,
CONTROL & SHOULD TRIF
THE ANSWERBACK
OF THE CALLING TH
SINCE THE COMPUTER MILL GO NO
MACHINE.
FURTHER UNTILL IT RECIEVES SOMTHING.
TYPE IN ANY RANDOM CHARECTER
AND OTT WILL LET
TN.
TYPE CATALOG
OR JUST "CATA"
AS IT ONLY "SEES" THE FI
FOUR CHARECTERS AFTER A SPACE.
YOIL!
CAN TYPE "NEWS MEAT SPOR (CR2" AND IT
WILL GIVE YOU THE LATEST
NEWS, HEATHER
FOR 26 CITIES. AND
SPORTS.
THE
CATALOG GIVES INSTRUCTIONS AND TELLS
WOU WHAT INFORMATION 7S AVAILABLE. THIS
IS A "DIAL-A-JOKE" TYPE SERVICE. PAID
FOR BY THE LINE CHARGES OF THE LONG
DISTANCE CALL IN REACHING IT.
IT SHOULD RE NOTED THAT YOUR TERMINAL
SHOULD BE SET FOR 116 BAUD. AND
EVEN OR NO PARITY. HAVE FUN. HAPP
HACKING, AND REMEMBER,
THX R4 PHREAKS:
ATTN: MILO FONEBILL
Please get in touch with me through the TAP office.
‘Tom Edison
COMING NEXT ISSUE !!!
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LETTERS FROM READERS
Dear TAP,
Perhaps some of your readers would like to chat with ships
on the high seas. This is now possible through a satellite called
Marisat, Actually there are two currently operational : Atlantic
and Pacific, and ina very short time there will be one for the
Indian Ocean too. Enclosed is a list of most of the ships that you
can contact and the list continues to grow. To place a call : engage
your favorite 800 or 555 number, then box off to 800-243-3640
(or 264-9090 in Comn.). This gets you the Marisat operator. She
will ask you billing information, so you should have a story made
up as to who (what individual/or company) is calling and give her
a number to bill it to (like IBM or Continental Bakery, or what-
ever). She doesn't have any way (presently) of knowing where the
call is coming from. (It's going to cost somebody 10 bucks a min-
ute!) And be a good guy and give her the ship's number (like SS
Jonsson #1560201) and tell her you want to speak with...... oh,
what the hell, the chief stewart or cabin boy - anyway, the radio
operator will get the call and you can bullshit with him. Sparks.
can tell you where the ship is, courses, speed, destination, etc.
Comsat has some other numbers that might prove fruitful if
somebody knows how to exploit them : (203) 264-9030 is Data Test
(associated digits 1800-922-4646, which may be a computer entry
code?), 264-9040, 264-9050 (data set), and 264-9060, You might
also try 264-4091/4092,
Has anybody ever "boxed" calls through TWX? I don't know if it's
it's a usable system. (See article on TWX phreaking by Osbert
Kilgallen in this issue of TAP.) Anyway Marisat has Telex
capability too : 710-581-5920 (toll free), Additionally, AT&T long
lines is 914-682-8252 and the United Nations language bank (free
translations?) is 212-686-3061.
May the force be with you,
R2-D2
Greetings,
In Missouri, Southwestern Bell has forced itself upon
an unwilling public. They now charge 20¢ per directory
assistance call (after the first five free ones per month).
Well, in a burst of insight it came to me--and it has
been verified by experiment and questions to operators.
It dst
Call the 555-1212 number, using the 1 code, omitting
the area code (as in calling directory assistance for ano-
ther town in your area code). when the operator asks you
“What city please?" just say the name of your town (in my
case St, Louis)--and she says "go ahead." They have no
way of knowing what town you are dialing from!! And there
is no charge for the 55501212 number.
I,also, note that Kansas City, Mo 555-1212 info us.
Shipboard Terminal
At 9%9s time, the following vessels
;
ee
were equipped with shipboard ter-
Installations:
minals which have been commis-
An Update
sioned for operation with the
Manisat System:
Country ot
Telephone!
ship
Reglatration
Telex Number
Answerback
AlMasa
Panama
‘330701
HeWO 1320701
Alaskan Star
United Sates
1801377
KGPy t30)377
fevonican Ace
Unted States
s00108
kroy 1500101
hours
Unted sates
500702
frco Anchorage...
Unted States
1801708
‘eoFarbants-..”.
Unted Sites
1801103
feo Juneau
Unied Sates
1801102
Atco Prudhoe Bay...
Unted Sites
1501101
ero te0110%
‘eva
Donor
2e10101
Ovaz 2610101
Bon Ocean Lancer...
Unted Kingdom
2440401
Guvu 2aroso1
Cable Vertue
Unted Kingdom
2440102
Gunz 2uaoi02
Ghewonavai™-/Unted Sites”
1g00303
NFO, 50080:
Srest
Unied States
1501576
Waar so1576
Donghae-Ho
Saud Araba
743101
HYSA. 3783101
Dochass Dane”.
Unted States
1501574
MGNA 1903578
Esso Banghok
Panama
1320101
exo. 390%01
Esso Copenhagen
“beta
Teaotoe
ELS) 1240102
Esso Malacca
Panama
1530108
eDA ‘320102
Esso Philppnes |.” Panama
{ea0r08
px 1330103
Esso Winoinchaven
Libera
te10i01
Elve. 1240101
Fred H. Moore
United States
1500602
OBL 1500602
Golden Bear
Unted States
‘1500501
We20 1500501
Incan Sel
United States
1503201
SEAL 1503201
indus
Sweden
2370101
Siar 230101
Sonsson
Conada
‘e020
exo. 1360201
00 Naru
vapan
3203177
ugg 203177
ting Oscar
United States
s0T20%
Wwe tsot201
wurema: Mars
‘apan
200102
BOOS 200102
(Ast alanioo
Unted sites
500208
wezu 100201
CASH tala
Unted Stes
1500204
WAT 1500204
ASH Pactico
Unted States
—_‘y500208
WEE 1500002
LASH Toye
Unted States
‘500208
wig 1500008
von A Macborald
Canada
‘seoior
CaaK t5e0101
Wercury
United Kingdom
244001
Coxe 240101
essmoli Chara...
Greece
2iso101
SxaN 2190103
Mooi Aero
Ghitea States
1800801
Wusy 500001
Momacsias
Unted States
500901
KGOF 1500301
Na Mara amet... aly
2is0eo!
IBrR 2150001
Nobe
Unteastates
Yaotsrs
KEKV 501575
Scean Fang
Panama
#320702
HeNe 1330702
Porobeto
Panama
1330000
Hews 13e040e
Procara
Unted States
501873
Wesh 1501873
Pueng rico
Unied
Sates
503208
Wee, 103802
US Gimmie
Unied Sites
s0azte
w2a {s03216
Pacesever il
United Sites
01477
Wost 1so1477
Post Enterprise
-..-.-.-Unted Kingdom
2440201
GUHL 2440001
QueenElzapeth2--
Unted Kingdom
240301
Serr atsa301
Royal Ving Sea...
Norway
25r0101
CEcx 2ar0%01
Sede 108
Untes'Staes
1500003
BCG 1500603
Seome explorer”...
Unted States
501476
Wane 1501476
JousoGeopa....
Unted States
1502108
WLDW'S0T01
Wid Gannett
Unted Kingdom
2440202
GwAG 2440202
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KON-KLAVE KANCELLED
by Cheshire
‘There was to be a Phone Phreak Konklave at the New
York Coliseum running concurrently with the Personal
Computing Expo (PCX) over the-Halloween weekend.
About 1/4 of the TAP mailing list (those in the "Bos-Wash"
and a few west-coasters) got the word a week or so
before the event. The evening before the event was to
begin, I was approached by people from Byte magazine, a
co-sponsor of PCX. It should be explained that all
negotiations had been handled by H A Bruno Associates in
New York, who had arranged to rent the Coliseum for the
show. I had already checked that no nearby hotel had
function rooms (I didn't bother checking the Central Park
South hotels), and approached Bruno Assoc. as 2
representative of a Communications Hobbyist Group
wishing to rent function space. When the folks from Byte
came into town, they had a fit,
In June 1975, 73 magazine published the schematic
diagram for a Blue Box. Pa Bell came down hard, and
sued The Magazine, The Publisher, and The General
Manager. The judgement that each one signed stated that
none of them would ever again aid, abet, or otherwise
help Phone Phreaks again, etc. If the Phreaks held their
meeting, it might be construed that Byte and in particular,
Byte's Publisher (then General Manager of 73) was aiding
Phone Phreaks, and Byte magazine would no longer exist.
This was not designated a goodness,
The meeting was cancelled, flyers were printed up to
State this, but we were requested not to release details
until after the weekend. This request was also honored.
However, as we handed the flyers out, we informed the
recipient that we intended to cry into our beer over the
cancellation at 4PM at the cafeteria,
A happier bunch of melancholy drunks you never saw
in your life! About 20-25 people finally showed up, and
one thing was unanimous. THERE WILL BE A PHONE
PHREAK CONVENTION WITHIN THE NEXT NINE MONTHS
PUES URUU ROD OOR OUD
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Our apologies to those who showed up and then couldn't
find us. You, and all our friends will have a chance to get
together soon,
Oh yeah, why did we try to have a konklave? Because
any Phreak worth his whistle knows that digital is the way
of the future. We expected a lot of our friends would be
attending anyway and wanted to get together.
We'll see you soon,
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Employes Find
Ways To Steal
Tere are 45 known waye
49
to steal money and/or goods
from employers and new
‘methods are being discovered
almost every day.according
to a recent study by the Dale
System, Ine.
“A clerk in a busy New
York City candy
"store
under-rings every sale by one
Penny and takes home $5 a
day — for 2 years. A
supermarket manager in
Oklahoma City sets up his
‘own cash register at peak
periods and in three months
collects $75,000 his employers
never knew about,” noted
Dale statisticians.