Admits an earlier prediction about a new credit-card numbering scheme was wrong and publishes the actual 1976 code, and retracts prior coverage of the ‘Telident’ instant-caller-ID device after learning it was fabricated for a stock fraud scheme. Read more →

Describes building the ‘Answeroo,’ a relay-based device that silently answers an incoming call with a lamp instead of a ring, and continues the reader-driven ‘Destructory Assistance’ information exchange. Read more →

Publishes a redesigned Red Box circuit, appeals to readers to recruit subscribers instead of raising prices, and covers regional wiring variations of the ‘T network’ along with continued reader information-trading. Read more →

Al Bell’s origin-story editorial frames YIPL as a deliberate provocation against the phone company, explaining the Black Box for dodging message-unit charges, a tone trick for triggering false alarms on Bell’s new blue-box detectors, and a new reader information-trading department called ‘Destructory Assistance.’ Read more →