Oz Y. Mandias’s column reports on DEA task forces targeting drug labs and reviews several counterculture books, while ‘The Wizard’ previews an in-progress microprocessor-controlled ‘brown box’ project merging several tone-box functions into one unit. Read more →

Reader classifieds spanning novelty items, survival/security publications, and personals, plus a tongue-in-cheek rant from a contributor accusing another writer of ripping off TAP’s copyrighted material. Read more →

Secret Service Counterfeit Currency Report, Reader Questions on Black Box Detection, etc. Read more →

Marking ten years since Al Bell and Abbie Hoffman launched the Youth International Party Line, editor Tom Edison recaps the newsletter’s lineage and editors, alongside a lock-picking column on cylinders fitted with ‘mushroom’ security drivers. Read more →

Carries an Abbie Hoffman Defense Fund clemency appeal, an announcement of TAP’s upcoming 10th-anniversary double issue and a planned ‘Best of TAP’ anthology, and a reprinted trade-press account of the WATS-80 phreak convention. Read more →

Fortress Fun-ding: technical breakdown of modern electronic coin telephone signaling and totalizing circuits. Read more →

Notes on Getting Started in Pirate Radio, categories of pirate broadcasting, transmitters, and antennas. Read more →

Alongside the usual classified listings, this edition carries a news item announcing WATS-80, a Washington DC symposium for telecommunications hobbyists co-sponsored by TAP. Read more →

Channel 68 Decoder circuit and block diagram for subscription/pay-TV signal descrambling. Read more →

L.A. Weekly profile of the Southern California phone-phreaking community and Lewis De Payne, identified as “Rosco.” Read more →

How to Modify Your Bell Touch Tone Fone to Have 1633 Cycle Tones, by The Sagician. Read more →

A typical issue of the ad sheet, carrying reader classifieds across for-sale, wanted, trade, personals, and services categories, plus TAP’s standard merchandise and subscription price list. Read more →

Milo Fonebill’s Automatic Blue Box Explained by Lavoisier, detailed 10-digit memory circuit walkthrough. Read more →

1979 Year in Review, Subscriber Losses, Better Living Through Chemistry drug-synthesis literature guide, etc. Read more →

Because only one ad arrived in time for this edition, the space was used to print a full alphabetical subject index to TAP issues 24 through 50, compiled by a reader, alongside one classified ad. Read more →