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Clear Box Plans
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This phile was typed up by The Bit of /The Postmen\.
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Call the Post Office :: xxx-xxx-xxxx
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(c) 1984 by 2600 Magazine!
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The clear box is a new device which has just been invented that can be
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used throughout Canada and rural United States. The clear box works on
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"PostPay" payphones (fortress fones). Those are the payphones that dont
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require payment until after the connection is established. You pick up the
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fone, get a dial tone, dial your number, and then insert your money after
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the person answers. If you dont deposit the money then you can not speak
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to the person on the other end- because your mouth peice is cut off, but,
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not the ear piece. (obviously these phones are nice for free calls to
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weather or time or other such recordings). All you must do is to go to
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your nearby Radio Shack, or electronics store, and get a four-transistor
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amplifier and a telephone suction cup induction pick-up. The induction
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pick-up would be hooked up as it normally would to record a conversation,
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except that it would be plugged into the out put of the amplifier and a
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microphone would be hooked to the input. So when the party that is being
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called answers, the caller could speak through the little microphone
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instead. His voice then goes through the amplifier and out the induction
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coil, and into the back of the reciever where it would then be broadcast
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through the phone lines and the other party would be able to hear the
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caller. The Clear Box thus 'clears up' the problem of not being heard.
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Luckily, the line will not be cut-off after a certain amount of time
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because it will wait forever for the coins to be put in. The biggest
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advantage for all of us about this new clear box is the fact that this
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type of payphone will most likely become very common. Due to a few things:
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1st, it is a cheap way of getting the DTF,dial-tone-first service, 2nd, it
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doesnt require any special equipment, (for the phone company) This
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payphone will work on any phone line. Ususally a payphone line is
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different, but this is a regular phone line and it is set up so the phone
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does all the charging, not the company.
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