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When I was a kid, I took apart an old VHS deck. One of the huge ones, from when they first came out. Not sure what I thought I was doing, but I proceeded to att
by jscheel 15y ago
When I was a kid, I took apart an old VHS deck. One of the huge ones, from when they first came out. Not sure what I thought I was doing, but I proceeded to attach the output of the transformer into the transmitting portion of an old rotary phone I had also disassembled. Our phone line went dead. According to our neighbors, our subdivision's entire phone network went down too. Not sure if that's true or not, but I am definitely surprised I didn't burn down the house that day.
- brk 15y agoIf I am not mistaken this was the essence of the (fictional) 'blotto box'. The recipe entailed hooking a power generator into a phone trunk line and taking out the majority of a subdivisions phone circuits. I was written up in many of the phreaker/anarchy text mags that were popular at the time, but I never heard of anyone actually trying it. I'm also pretty sure the authors were not aware of things like fuses... Brings back fond memories though.