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blue box
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n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible
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for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear
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the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreakers
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built devices called es that could reproduce these tones, which could be
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used to commandeer portions of the phone network. There were other colors
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of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver
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boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the was the
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original and archetype. 2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC)
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one.
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