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March 1, 1981 · TAP

TAP No. 66 - Fortress Fun-Ding

TAP No. 66 - Fortress Fun-Ding

A dense, patent-style technical article dissecting the electronics inside newer ‘Fortress’-style coin telephones, describing the electronic coin-value signaling tones that replaced older mechanical gongs, the line-powered oscillator and driver transistor circuitry that generates them, and the Variable Initial Rate (VIR) totalizing circuit that tracks deposited coin value against the switching office’s required rate. Framed as reference material for phreaks studying how modern payphones detect and validate deposits, likely reproduced from an industry engineering publication.

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