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Msg. :343
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About :WHEN I WAS YOUNG...
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From :ROGER OLSON
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To :ALL CALLS
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Date :3/19/83
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When I was young, and in my prime, I used to phreak all the time For the
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beneifit of <<some>> users on this BBS, the phone company did not go into
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business yesterday! Some of us were phreaking i n the days of manual service.
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Chicago, Illinois had manual service through the early fifties in a few
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exchanges. As a twelve year old kid, my buddies and I <<loved>> to use the
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payphone at the corner drugstore to phart around. The payphones were easy to
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fool. "Area codes" and "direct dialing" of long distance calls did not start
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anywhere until 1962...did <you> know that? You called the operator for long
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distance and she would say put x amount of coins in the box. We would put in
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the first couple of quarters, and out would come the coat hanger which went up
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the return slot (no traps on the doors then, like now) and the coat hanger
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would trip the little metal catch box inside and return the quarters.."...just
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a minute operator! I am looking for more change!!...." and the same quarters
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would be used over and over until the two or three dollars desired had been
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"deposited". Then, be quick and get the quarters out again before the operator
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had a chance to collect them. The operator would grow impatient waiting for
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you to get all the money "deposited", but as I got experienced with that bent
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peice of wire I could get two bucks in the phone and out of the phone in record
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time. The switchboards used for operating the coin phones had two special keys
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- one to press for collecting the coins and one to press for returning the
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coins. Sometimes the operator would also screw up and hit the return key by
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accident after you were finished speaking on the call. Other times she would
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screw up and collect on an incomplete call. They were so <trusting> in those
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days all you had to do was use a phone and say, "operator I have a credit
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coming". They belived you!
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