Video Voodoo by Fred Steinbeck on classic arcade-game coin-mechanism quirks, plus drug-culture news notes and police vehicle surveillance tactics. Read more →

A provocative, dated column referencing armed guerrilla groups touches on modifying paging equipment for remote triggering and points to declassified government documents on chemical and nuclear weapons history, presented here strictly as a historical record. Read more →

Editor Tom A. Edison opens the year with subscription and payment policy changes, followed by a ‘Security Alert’ column warning that toll records can be obtained by law enforcement without a warrant and that tracking devices have been found hidden in chemical shipments. Read more →

Getting In, a lock-picking and forced-entry guide framed as being for readers locked out of their own homes. Read more →

Blue Box Equipment and Usage (the Fred Steinbeck Issue), a parts and sourcing guide for hobbyist blue-box builders. Read more →

Free Pay TV ‘Legally!’ by The Magician, an overview of satellite, MDS, and multipoint distribution pay-television technology as an alternative to illegal decoder boxes. Read more →

An FBI View of Computer Crime, a recap of an FBI agent’s talk on computer fraud categories and notable cases, plus a chemistry-column update. Read more →

Responding to a reader’s objection to TAP covering drug chemistry, ‘Dr. Atomic’ argues chemistry fits the newsletter’s broadened mission, discussing a food-preservative antioxidant’s possible life-extension effects while explicitly declining to detail any lethal chemistry. Read more →

11th Anniversary Issue: WATS Extenders by The Magician, explaining the legitimate business origin of WATS-line coupling and its exploitation by phreaks, with detection/legal-risk warnings. Read more →

TELENET by Paul Montgomery, a guide to accessing the GTE Telenet packet-switched computer network, plus a CENTAPP group newsletter excerpt. Read more →

Random Ramblings No. 2 by Paul Montgomery on accessing Bell System COSMOS phone-company databases, plus a PBX auto-attendant toll-fraud trick. Read more →

Opens with a history of U.S. fireworks regulation before covering, in general terms with extensive safety warnings, the construction of paper-tube fireworks and coloring/finishing techniques. Read more →

Simon Jester Issue: an early social-engineering trick for harvesting mainframe terminal passwords, plus notes on HP-2000 systems and a lineman’s handset tip. Read more →

TAP editor Tom Edison’s candid appeal to readers about the newsletter’s finances, describing rising printing and postage costs and threatening to dock issues from subscribers who don’t buy merchandise, alongside the usual classified listings. Read more →

Freebasing Cocaine, a chemistry-focused feature by Dr. Atomic on the (then-emerging) practice of converting cocaine hydrochloride to smokable freebase. Read more →