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>> Simply holding the watch’s built-in speaker up to the receiver of a push-button telephone allowed users to place calls to stored numbers So a miniaturized v
by palmotea 1y ago
>> Simply holding the watch’s built-in speaker up to the receiver of a push-button telephone allowed users to place calls to stored numbers
So a miniaturized version of one of this (which I totally uselessly had as a kid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z438yRW0rGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z438yRW0rGQ.
- piltdownman 1y agoHow on earth did we never see some early 90s hacker-culture movie do some Blue-box phreaking using this watch, similar to the (fictional) Atari Portfolio ATM hack in Terminator 2.
- dole 1y agoAs famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while... https://phonelosers.com/redbox/tonedialer/ https://phonelosers.com/redbox/tonedialer/ https://hackaday.com/2014/09/05/radioshack-phone-dialer-red-box-2/ https://hackaday.com/2014/09/05/radioshack-phone-dialer-red-...
- palmotea 1y ago> As famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while... And now that you remind me, that's totally why I bought one, but at the time I lacked the tools and electronics skills to do the mod.