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Posted: 1/3/2019 10:44:46 PM EDT
ToneLoc ver 3...
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Posted: 1/3/2019 10:49:02 PM EDT
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You know it. All 300 of them baud.
It turned into a pretty good living, and I still get those feels at times. |
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Posted: 1/3/2019 10:58:01 PM EDT
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I miss the good old days of that sort of thing.
Like when some dude wrote a perl script to watch DVDs and he was either the coolest dude in the world or the most evil. 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:44:25 AM EDT
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I had every issue of 2600 as .pdf files. Gave them to my son along with my Captain Crunch whistle and a lot of interesting toolkit software.
Sigh. The good old days. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:55:49 AM EDT
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Watisthis.jpg
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Posted: 1/4/2019 12:58:09 AM EDT
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All kinds of unsecured systems, just waiting to be called.
Was beautiful. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 1:02:07 AM EDT
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I am 47. I have no idea what any of this means.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 1:12:14 AM EDT
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I had every issue of 2600 as .pdf files. Gave them to my son along with my Captain Crunch whistle and a lot of interesting toolkit software. Sigh. The good old days. Thread legit: this was when computing was actually fun. And phreaking was straightforward. sigh |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 1:18:06 AM EDT
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Uh-huh...it’s all this....
 ...until you get this. 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 1:47:14 AM EDT
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Uh-huh...it's all this.... https://78.media.tumblr.com/acb4ed5d0088f2714911221898293620/tumblr_nvi4kfNsOa1u937jco6_r1_500.gif https://media.giphy.com/media/nVovddlzyq1OM/giphy.gif ...until you get this.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/112f8f5e495cb4480771ab0118a154d8/tumblr_mwkr0dyMFZ1t2308to1_400.gif ... I was 13 when that came out. Suddenly, me poking around on GEnie and CompuServe was inspected a GREAT deal more closely by my parents. lol (We lived near a nuclear weapon component production facility. They had their own prefix (576, I think). Stuff picked up. Nothing came of it, I never figured out how. (shrugs) IRC, on the other hand, was incredible! |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 1:58:03 AM EDT
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Heh. Different times, for sure.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:02:25 AM EDT
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Fuuuuuuck yes. MAIN. Lol.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:04:40 AM EDT
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I most definitely do!
I wrote my own war dialer in quick basic. There was some piece of communications software published in Byte magazine that I copied BY HAND line by line, then modified to suit my war dialing needs. I found some cool stuff out there in my tiny local town. Honestly, the movie Wargames made me who I am today. ETA I am 41 years old. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:08:14 AM EDT
[#13]
yup..
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:08:54 AM EDT
[#14]
I'd let Tone Loc run while I was at school then come home and go through the results.
I still remember my first popped Unix box. A local oil company with root/password as their login. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:10:02 AM EDT
[#15]
Plus blue, black and green boxing.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:11:23 AM EDT
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Press 1 for English, press 2 for...gibberish. I have absolutely no idea what anything in this threads means. But, I was probably busy adulting during those exciting times.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:13:04 AM EDT
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Press 1 for English, press 2 for...gibberish. I have absolutely no idea what anything in this threads means. But, I was probably busy adulting during those exciting times. Yeah, that. 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:13:39 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:17:36 AM EDT
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I most definitely do! I wrote my own war dialer in quick basic. There was some piece of communications software published in Byte magazine that I copied BY HAND line by line, then modified to suit my war dialing needs. I found some cool stuff out there in my tiny local town. Honestly, the movie Wargames made me who I am today. ETA I am 41 years old. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 2:25:59 AM EDT
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Commodore 128d with 1650 modem. Was given a list of local BBS systems. Dialed number on the the phone and then unplugged the headset to plug it in to 1650 modem. Red light came one and terminal program started to scroll text at 300 baud. Wish i could remember the name of the terminal program. That was pretty much a turning point in my life. Things were never the same.
Phrack, 2600 and all the other "mags", xmascon, etc. Radio shack dialers that could redbox with the change of a crystal (allegedly). Interesting time to be young. Went to defcon 25 and 26 and will likely go to 27 this year. For anyone that wants to feel the spirit of a "hacker" culture I recommend defcon. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 3:17:52 AM EDT
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Phrack, 2600 and all the other "mags", xmascon, etc. Radio shack dialers that could redbox with the change of a crystal (allegedly). Interesting time to be young. I still have like two somewhere boxed up. One permanently changed, and one with a switch to go back and forth. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 4:07:16 AM EDT
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Phrack, 2600 and all the other "mags", xmascon, etc. Radio shack dialers that could redbox with the change of a crystal (allegedly). Interesting time to be young. Gave one away. Wish I kept it for a conversation piece. And don't wardial from your parents' house at 3am then cut it off. Caller ID had just come out (I didn't have *67 in the string) and some angry fuck called back, dad answered. Lots of screaming about "my wife. Lover. Bastard. Caught you!" Lol He hung up, walked in my room while I pretended to sleep and said "I don't know what the fuck you are doing, but don't. You're lucky I'm not nearly as nuts as that guy"
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Posted: 1/4/2019 4:40:10 AM EDT
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I had every issue of 2600 as .pdf files. Gave them to my son along with my Captain Crunch whistle and a lot of interesting toolkit software. Sigh. The good old days. No Radio Shack Tone Dialer? I still have mine around here somewhere. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 5:21:48 AM EDT
[#24]
 Failed To Load Title  Apple 30 Celebration with Steve Wozniak and Captain Crunch Part 2 of 2 |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 5:36:38 AM EDT
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Original Cap'n Crunch whistles sell for quite a bit of money.
You can get 3-D printed copies fairly cheap though. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:07:07 AM EDT
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What? No Radio Shack Tone Dialer? I still have mine around here somewhere. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I had every issue of 2600 as .pdf files. Gave them to my son along with my Captain Crunch whistle and a lot of interesting toolkit software. Sigh. The good old days. No Radio Shack Tone Dialer? I still have mine around here somewhere. I confess I had a ton of Radio Shack stuff including a dtmf setup. Also built an analog dialer that simulated cradle dialing. Slower than digital but it completely bypassed caller id. Haven't thought about this stuff in years. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:25:07 AM EDT
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It's all fun and games until mom gets the phone bill
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:29:36 AM EDT
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Watisthis.jpg |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:32:32 AM EDT
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It was glorious.
Phreaking boxes. Screwing with pay phones. Ahhh to be young, dumb, and not have anything be illegal at the federal level.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:34:26 AM EDT
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I am 47. I have no idea what any of this means.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:37:10 AM EDT
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It's all fun and games until mom gets the phone bill |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:37:48 AM EDT
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I'm not sure but I think they are talking about jerking off while talking to sailors on a party line. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:41:38 AM EDT
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In the mid 1990s i traded vanilla ice’s home telephone for the pope’s office line.
We also used to prank offshore oil rigs, $50 a minute to call them |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:46:07 AM EDT
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ToneLoc ver 3... I went home and checked my log. It was me war dialing. I woke up my Grammy. 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:47:32 AM EDT
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Classic kcolg30 thread.
Geeks before geeks were cool. Or gay hook-up coded language. Take your pick. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:48:05 AM EDT
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Does anyone remember the codes we’d obtain to make free long distance calls?
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:50:32 AM EDT
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Yes, I not only know what this is, I've used one.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:52:39 AM EDT
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some of us are on a list
fortunately it got me a summer internship with Cable and Wireless. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:53:07 AM EDT
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Yes, I not only know what this is, I've used one.
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/64/31/product-96431.jpg 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:54:13 AM EDT
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Oh, I went way beyond war dialing.
I mean, uh... what were we talking about? |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 9:55:43 AM EDT
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It's all fun and games until mom gets the phone bill Seriously. Back in the early automated days a 2600hz tone opened up a world of unbilled long distance communication. Hence 2600 magazine and the Cap'n Crunch whistle that came in cereal boxes and put out a 2600hz tone. One of the kids at school could whistle a tone closr enough to work. So many fun things to do. Hacking ARPANET opened a buffet of virtually unprotected mainframe systems just waiting to be explored. The geek t-shirt with "Got Root?" dates back to this amazing time of almost unfettered electronic freedom. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:00:44 AM EDT
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Commodore 128d with 1650 modem. Was given a list of local BBS systems. Dialed number on the the phone and then unplugged the headset to plug it in to 1650 modem. Red light came one and terminal program started to scroll text at 300 baud. Wish i could remember the name of the terminal program. That was pretty much a turning point in my life. Things were never the same. Phrack, 2600 and all the other "mags", xmascon, etc. Radio shack dialers that could redbox with the change of a crystal (allegedly). Interesting time to be young. Went to defcon 25 and 26 and will likely go to 27 this year. For anyone that wants to feel the spirit of a "hacker" culture I recommend defcon. I was transferring CAD files to our VAX at 1200 baud with xmodem so they could be plotted on a pen plotter. The good ol' days. When 38.4 modems came out we were overjoyed. One of my colleagues got rid of a DOS computer this year. He maintained it since it was the only way to read out some of the ancient instruments we still had in service. We still have lots of equipment that uses RS232 serial ports. The really enlightened systems use 422/485. For the last 10 years we've had to train new hires on serial ports. Most young people have never seen one. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:01:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Holy cow. The acoustic coupler!!!
At 0300 on a Friday night: "File downloading...95%...96%...97%...>CLICK-CLACKBEEP BEEP BEEP<" 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:05:04 AM EDT
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Yes, I not only know what this is, I've used one.
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/64/31/product-96431.jpg Oddly, Japan had the most antiquated phone system in the 90's. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:12:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: An elegant communicator for a more civilized age. I had a small one that I carried when traveling and it never worked very well. I got really good at dismantling hotel phone wiring for that direct line connection. Also dialing international access numbers for long distance calls. I don't think any of that stuff exists anymore. Oddly, Japan had the most antiquated phone system in the 90's. 
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:13:38 AM EDT
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My first semester of college (1984) this guy, we'll call him "Steve", shows up with a Commodore Pet or something, and a modem.
He boasts that his dad works for AT&T, and he has "secret long distance codes" that will let him dial up around the world "for free". Well, he must have done some serious porn snooping, because at the end of the semester he got a bill from AT&T for $4,300-some-odd dollars. We learned later that he was forced to pay it, and Daddy stopped paying for "Steve" to attend college. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:17:25 AM EDT
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I am 47. I have no idea what any of this means. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:27:30 AM EDT
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I remember reading bbs posts of people who had figured out how to create active telephone accounts in the 555-5xxx series of numbers.
Back in those days the exchange was a word-"whitney"- was 94-so whitney36452 was dialed as 9436452.. the 555 exchange was (and still is)used for phone company stuff. The letters are JKL and no word starts with those letters. Just for shits and giggles try dialing 555 555 5555. See what you get. |
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Posted: 1/4/2019 10:31:49 AM EDT
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Ohhh boy, I just found my stash of 2600 magazine.
Sadly, all info is virtually outdated.
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Posted: 1/4/2019 11:15:32 AM EDT
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I will never forget Procom, N81 and com ports at 3600.
I was a bit late for 300... ETA; And XModem, ZModem.... |
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