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Deozaan:
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-40hz (May 25, 2009, 10:12 PM)
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Wow I've never seen a Hex keypad before! I was looking at that before I saw the label and I was thinking that it had to be the most confusing and hard to use keyboard in the world, the way the numbers and letters were organized.

Then I saw it was a hex keypad and it all made sense!

CWuestefeld:
Then I saw it was a hex keypad and it all made sense!
-Deozaan (June 04, 2009, 02:29 PM)
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Any old-school phreaks out there that remember silver boxes?



Google let me down here. I used to have a real phone with the extra buttons, but I can't find an image of it now.

40hz:
Any old-school phreaks out there that remember silver boxes?
-CWuestefeld (June 04, 2009, 03:16 PM)
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And blue boxes, and red ones, and ...ah the joys of trying to get to meet the "Ma Bell and Da Feds" under not so ideal circumstances.

Here's the sequence for that experience in six steps:  

1)  :) ;D :)  

2) 

3)  8) 8)    

4)  8)

5)  8):( :huh: 8)

 and finally

6)  8) 8) .............

Cap'n Crunch Lives! :Thmbsup:

Edvard:
A friend and I built a few, but they never worked quite as advertised.
Tabletop phones with alligator clips worked wonders though... :Thmbsup:

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