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blue box
(foldoc) | Blue Box
The complete implementation of the Mac OS
run-time environment on the more modern Rhapsody operating
system. Blue Box is not an emulation layer; at any given
time it will be based on the same source code and ROM image as
the current version of Mac OS and will thus incorporate future
Mac OS improvements.
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blue box
(foldoc) | blue box
A type of device used for phreaking.
(2022-09-11)
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blue box
(jargon) | blue box
n.
1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for
the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the
switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreakers built
devices called blue boxes that could reproduce these tones, which could be
used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as
it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet “Captain Crunch”
after he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic
whistle pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other
colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes,
silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the blue
box was the original and archetype.
2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.
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blue box
(foldoc) | Blue Box
The complete implementation of the Mac OS
run-time environment on the more modern Rhapsody operating
system. Blue Box is not an emulation layer; at any given
time it will be based on the same source code and ROM image as
the current version of Mac OS and will thus incorporate future
Mac OS improvements.
blue box
A type of device used for phreaking.
(2022-09-11)
|
blue box
(jargon) | blue box
n.
1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for
the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the
switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreakers built
devices called blue boxes that could reproduce these tones, which could be
used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as
it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet “Captain Crunch”
after he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic
whistle pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other
colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes,
silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the blue
box was the original and archetype.
2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.
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