Comments on: I’ve always wondered http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/ Training for my next race, making chocolate, and trying not to mix the two too much. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Heather http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24619 Heather Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:43:29 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24619 I would have never thought anything of it. Heyyy, I am back on the blogs,, :) come on by for a visit. I would have never thought anything of it. Heyyy, I am back on the blogs,, :) come on by for a visit.

]]> By: deene http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24617 deene Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:22:17 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24617 you dialed the only honest operator there was. Happy New Year!! you dialed the only honest operator there was.

Happy New Year!!

]]> By: david http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24615 david Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:17:43 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24615 Three years ago this week you commented on my new blog to become the first "stranger" to read my running accounts. You joined Susie as my first readers and for that I say thank you and Happy New Year. May we have another year that comes close to the best times we had in the last three. Three years ago this week you commented on my new blog to become the first “stranger” to read my running accounts. You joined Susie as my first readers and for that I say thank you and Happy New Year. May we have another year that comes close to the best times we had in the last three.

]]> By: Vincent http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24609 Vincent Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:54:23 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24609 Jank is right - except it was a "red box", not a "blue box". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking) In a nutshell, when you put in a quarter the pay phone made a five tones in rapid succession (one for every five cents worth of credit) and the phone network recognized those tones as credit. If you put the coins in too fast the system wouldn't be able to count all of the credit. So if they couldn't count it all they would refund the money and ask that you put the coins back in a bit more slowly so they could count it all. (If you had a red box you could just play the tones in the earpiece of the pay phone instead of putting coins in the machine..) Jank is right - except it was a “red box”, not a “blue box”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)

In a nutshell, when you put in a quarter the pay phone made a five tones in rapid succession (one for every five cents worth of credit) and the phone network recognized those tones as credit. If you put the coins in too fast the system wouldn’t be able to count all of the credit.

So if they couldn’t count it all they would refund the money and ask that you put the coins back in a bit more slowly so they could count it all.

(If you had a red box you could just play the tones in the earpiece of the pay phone instead of putting coins in the machine..)

]]> By: Beth http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24608 Beth Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:29:08 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24608 THey just removed a payphone from the hallway of my school and there is a big yucky hole there now. So sad. THey just removed a payphone from the hallway of my school and there is a big yucky hole there now. So sad.

]]> By: 21stCenturyMom http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24600 21stCenturyMom Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:17:28 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24600 That was some old school technology so why not? It isn't like the phones had electronic coin readers in them. Merry Christmas - have fun! That was some old school technology so why not? It isn’t like the phones had electronic coin readers in them.

Merry Christmas - have fun!

]]> By: susan http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24598 susan Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:24:28 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24598 I'd have believed it. I believe everything. Happy Holidays to you Jon. I’d have believed it. I believe everything. Happy Holidays to you Jon.

]]> By: david http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24596 david Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:41:41 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24596 I am totally confused. I'll believe anything. I am totally confused. I’ll believe anything.

]]> By: jank http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24595 jank Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:40:45 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24595 No - he was telling the truth. This was how the "blue boxes" worked- they could send the tones the phone would make to register coins without any actual coins. Merry Christmas, Jon. No - he was telling the truth. This was how the “blue boxes” worked- they could send the tones the phone would make to register coins without any actual coins.

Merry Christmas, Jon.

]]> By: Pamalamadingdong http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24594 Pamalamadingdong Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:11:33 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/23/ive-always-wondered/#comment-24594 I bet you were. heeee! I bet you were.
heeee!

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