Read an article about building a Redbox either on the 2600 Usenet group or some other hack/phreak BBS probably around 1993. Went to radio shack the next day to buy the tone dialer and crystal. I messed up the solder pretty bad but it still works to this day.
Red box
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kenotron@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
***** ***** ***** *****BenDoubleU@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
***** red box ASMR
kenotron@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
yeah that's good stuff...I messed up my crystal solder job enough that the rest of the dialer circuit wouldn't work...I tried a tape recorder instead but using that just got the at&t operator to harass me
arcane@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
I still have an old tone dialer I picked up in the late 90's laying around. I don't believe was one of the "right" models to modify and I never got around to seeing if it even could be modified. Guess there wouldn't be much point these days but its an interesting historical curiosity
BenDoubleU@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah, definitely just a curiosity. It usually lives in the back of a junk drawer or cable box. Sometimes I'll come across it and just smile :)
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Messing up the solder on one of those was a rite of passage in itself back then.