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File: THE CLEAR BOX
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INTRODUCING THE CLEAR BOX!
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[2600 -- July 1984]
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A new device has just been invented. It's called the "clear box". It can
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be used throughout Canada and through rural United States.
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This interesting gadget works on "post-pay" payphones, in other words, those
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phones that don't require payment until after the connection has been
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established. You pick up the phone, get a dial tone, dial your number, and
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then put in your coinst after the person answers. If you don't deposit money,
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you can't speak to the person at the other end, bacause your mouthpiece is cut
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off -- but not your earpiece. (Yes, you can make free calls to the weather,
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etc. from such phones.)
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In order to bypass this, all one has to do is visit a nearby electronics
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store, get a 4-transistor amplifier and a telephone suction cup induction
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pick-up. The induction pick-up would be hooked up as it normally would to
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record a conversation, except that it would be plugged into the output of the
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amplifier and a microphone would be hooked into the input. So when the party
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answers, the caller could speak through the little microphone instead. His
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voice would then go through the amplifier, out the induction coil, and into the
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back of the receiver where it would then be broadcast through the phone lines
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and the other party would be able to hear the caller. The clear box thus
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"clears" up the problem of not being heard.
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The line will not cut off after a certain amount of time -- it will wait
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forever for the coins to drop in.
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Many independents are moving towards this kind of stupid payphone system.
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For one thing, it's a cheap way of getting DTF (dial tone first) service. It
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doesn't require any special equipment. That type of payphone will work on any
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kind of a phone line. Normally, a payphone line is different, but this is just
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a regular phone line and it's set up so that the payphone does all of the
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charging, not the CO. With the recent deregulation of payphones, this kind of
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a system could become very popular.
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SF][G8:ba003.010185
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[Courtesy of Sherwood Forest ][ -- (914) 359-1517]
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