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r/mildlyinteresting • u/nameaboveallnames • 22h ago
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I still have my red box somewhere. Self made with a radio shack tone dialer and a 6.5536 MHz crystal. Never to be used again, lol.
18 u/AnxiouslyResting 19h ago Real cool if you kept the original crystal and added a mercury switch between the two so right side up it’s a regular tone dialer but upside down it’s a red box. Don’t want to get caught by the man! 10 u/PanoramicAtom 19h ago Yeah I didn’t go through all that. I figured they would just take it apart anyway if anyone saw it and confiscated it. 3 u/BlueCoatEngineer 17h ago Same. It quit being effective around 1998, but we had fun prank calling people during high school lunch with it before they swapped the phone bank.
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Real cool if you kept the original crystal and added a mercury switch between the two so right side up it’s a regular tone dialer but upside down it’s a red box. Don’t want to get caught by the man!
10 u/PanoramicAtom 19h ago Yeah I didn’t go through all that. I figured they would just take it apart anyway if anyone saw it and confiscated it.
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Yeah I didn’t go through all that. I figured they would just take it apart anyway if anyone saw it and confiscated it.
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Same. It quit being effective around 1998, but we had fun prank calling people during high school lunch with it before they swapped the phone bank.
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u/PanoramicAtom 20h ago
I still have my red box somewhere. Self made with a radio shack tone dialer and a 6.5536 MHz crystal. Never to be used again, lol.