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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: Phone tones as NeXT sound files.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.015440.16739@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1992Aug10.211359.22147@cs.ubc.ca> <Bt753D.5n3@sounds.wa.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:54:40 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <Bt753D.5n3@sounds.wa.com> brianw@sounds.wa.com
- (Brian Willoughby) writes:
- >The last four came from a Radio Shack book, but I can't tell you how to use
- >them (except NOT to use them). They are the famous "Blue-Box" tones generated
- >by another one of Steve Wozniak's electronic inventions (or so urban legend has
- >it).
-
- The fourth column of DTMF bears *no* relationship to the infamous
- "blue box" tones. You're thinking of the (completely different)
- "MF" tones used by the defunct Signaling System No. 5.
-
- > I guess Steve Jobs has finally outdone The Woz's Blue-box with his
- >Black-box :-)
-
- But about a decade too late.
-
- It's too bad NeXT is dropping the Music Kit from 3.0.
- It's useful for a lot more than Christmas Carols.
-
- -=EPS=-
- --
- Can I use the 56001 in my NeXT to make a software RADAR DETECTOR? :-)
-