Lock-Pick Larceny by Alexander Mundy, tools, cylinder types, and step-by-step picking technique. Read more →

TAP Changes Name to Technological Assistance Program, New Address, THC-79 Convention Recap, Special Government Phone Procedures, etc. Read more →

Debut issue of TAP’s standalone classified ad sheet, shipped alongside issues 57 and 58; introduces the ad-rate policy and prints early buy/sell/wanted/trade listings from readers. Read more →

Pro-Gun Rights Postage Stamp Campaign, Mr. Phelps Strikes Again column returns, etc. Read more →

Editor Tom Edison gives a lengthy, personal account of TAP’s founding and near-collapse after publisher Al Bell’s 1977 departure left the newsletter without proper mailing labels and mounting unpaid bills, describing how TAP recovered by acquiring its own computer system and relocating to a new office. Read more →

The Programmable Blue Box, digital logic schematic for keypad-driven tone dialer, etc. Read more →

Test Your Stash Drug-ID Column Debuts, Marquis Reagent Test Chart, Phone Billing News, etc. Read more →

Reviews Michael Hoy’s Exotic Weapons: An Access Book as a springboard for disavowing violence, points readers to lock-pick suppliers and a commercial MF tone-generator module, and criticizes publisher Loompanics for distributing a Holocaust-denial title. Read more →

Meeting Phone Phreaks at Trade Shows, THC-79 Conference Details, Microcomputer Blue Box Tones, etc. Read more →

A special issue dedicated to outgoing co-editor Jim Phelps, compiled from material he left behind, including UK telephone-exchange fraud tips, a corporate credit card validated through MCI’s voice-response system, and a request for a radar-jammer schematic. Read more →

Auto-Combo Red-Blue Box notes, TAP’s Financial Crisis and Near-Folding, THC-79 Announcement, etc. Read more →

TAP’s 7th anniversary double issue opens with a step-by-step guide to fabricating lock picks from spring steel, followed by ‘Electronics for the Dope Dealer,’ covering countersurveillance techniques, and pieces on cable TV descrambling reflecting the era’s drift toward broader ‘countereconomics’ content. Read more →

Two collaborators dissect a decommissioned ‘Fortress’ payphone, refining earlier mechanical details and explaining how its coin-relay mechanism generates tone pulses, and warn that Red Box tone timing drifts with outdoor temperature. Read more →

Prints a harsh reader letter accusing editor Tom Edison of filling TAP with complaints instead of information, followed by his lengthy defense recounting the newsletter’s brush with financial collapse, plus a feature on an emerging phone bill-payment service. Read more →

Reprints a feature on the booming radar-detector market, covering the devices’ patchwork legality, the ongoing arms race between detector makers and police radar, and commentary from Fuzzbuster inventor Dale Smith. Read more →