Mattel IntelliVision II 5872 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 235)

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 [1600]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. 2. n. An [1601]IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.

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Blue Glue n.

[IBM] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly

[1605]losing and [1606]bletcherous communications protocol widely

favored at commercial shops that don't know any better. The official

IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes together." See

[1607]fear and loathing. It may not be irrelevant that Blue Glue is

the trade name of a 3M product that is commonly used to hold down the

carpet squares to the removable panel floors common in [1608]dinosaur

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