TAP No. 79 - Blue Box Equipment and Usage
Blue Box Equipment and Usage (the Fred Steinbeck Issue), a parts and sourcing guide for hobbyist blue-box builders. Read more →
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TAP No. 62 - Milo Fonebill's Automatic Blue Box Explained
Milo Fonebill’s Automatic Blue Box Explained by Lavoisier, detailed 10-digit memory circuit walkthrough. Read more →
TAP No. 56 - The Programmable Blue Box
The Programmable Blue Box, digital logic schematic for keypad-driven tone dialer, etc. Read more →
TAP No. 51 - Milo Fonebill Issue: Auto-Combo Red-Blue Boxes
Auto-Combo Red-Blue Box notes, TAP’s Financial Crisis and Near-Folding, THC-79 Announcement, etc. Read more →
TAP No. 6 - Blue Box 2 (Early Model)
Confirms the technical accuracy of Ron Rosenbaum’s Esquire blue-boxing exposé, restates YIPL’s mission as a reader-supplied information pool, and publishes a table of 1972 credit card billing codes by city along with tips for avoiding detection when boxing from pay phones. Read more →
TAP No. 2 - Blue Box Story and Abbie on Ripoffs
Reprints a New York Times report on a Long Island blue-box arrest, explains the tone-pair frequencies behind blue boxing, and features a published debate between columnist Russell Baker and Abbie Hoffman over whether ripping off the phone company helps or hurts the counterculture. Read more →
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