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- So you've always wanted to be your own operator?
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- So you've always wanted to run your own Long Distance Service?
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- So you've always had a slight yearning to make money with minimal amounts
- of work on your part?
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- So you've always had visions of your computer making you money?
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- Well here's your chance....
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- P H R E A K E R S ' N E T
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- Not exactly legal, safe, or feasible - by an exciting idea none the less!
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- Step 1: Set up your LDS system on your computer.
-
- [Since Phreakers' Net is just an interesting idea and not really intended to
- be put to use, you will have to create your own system based on what you read on
- my theoritical one in this file. If you really want to run a P Net, contact me
- somewhere and I'll see about helping you to write one - What the hell?]
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- Step 2: Find your customers.
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- This step shouldn't be all that hard as many people should be more than
- willing to subscribe to a LDS with a low rate & hi-tech system like yours. Your
- rates should be set at about five to ten cents less than say Sprint or whatever
- else is available to the customers. You would find your customers personally
- and not advertise in any sort of way (this is a scam, remember?). You will only
- need a few of them anyway (no more than thirty).
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- Step 3: Ok, now you have your "Super Hi-Tech LDS" set up and your customers
- lined up. Here is an example of exactly how your awesome system
- that beats the hell out of Sprint works:
-
- - [Fred Johnson, your customer, calls]
-
- {Note: Your system will be busy a lot (obviously, you only have one line).
- But hey! Do they know that? Hell no! Do they realize that they are one of
- only a few customers? Nope! They, understandably, will be firm believers in
- your great LDS network and will easily believe your excuse that your system is
- only able to hand twenty or so callers at one time.}
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- (By the way, the motto is: P T&T - The less you hear, the more we laugh!!!)
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- Your ever-so-friendly Cat answers and says (notice that Sprint never says much
- at all to anyone?):
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- Hello. Welcome to the _____ LDS. Please type your identification number:
-
- {Beats the hell out of a dull tone}
-
- {At this point your Cat decodes the id number by either TT decoder chip or
- by use of the Apple Cassette Input Port (see Tic-Tac-Talker / Apple Talker)}
-
- {Now your wonderful system starts to show off}
-
- {After going to Ram-Disk very quickly}
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- Hello again, Mr. Fred Johnson of 2600 Alley Street, New York, New York. This
- is your 11th call, totaling 128 minutes, 12 seconds and amounting to 31 dollars,
- 71 cents. Your last call was made on Monday, June 10, 1985 at 3:31pm to
- Chicago, Illinois to 312-665-0264. Your call lasted six minutes, 29 seconds.
- The total came to three dollars, 43 cents. The Doritos are on sale for $1.67 at
- your local grocery store. Thank you for using the _____ Long Distance System.
-
- {Now if that doesn't convince your customer that your system is bigger and at
- least fifty times better than Sprint already (remember his bill is less too),
- the guy has serious problems, probably voted for Nixon & still does!)
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- Step 4: So, while your furry Cat has been impressing the shit out of this
- fool with his life history and local blue light specials, it also has picked up
- your second line, dialed the local Sprint port, typed "your" ode, and connected
- the line in 3-way with ole Mr. J. who is now heard his life history and ready
- to call someone:
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- {Cat:} Please enter the number you wish to dial.
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- And your awesome system (Sprint) puts the call through! Then your Cat starts
- its little Cat Clock to time the length of the call and maybe even starts its
- cute tape recorder going. You may wish to have a few good laughs with your
- phriends (phreaker friends) that evening reviewing the days conversatins. ( You
- might even be lucky enough to pick up some extra cash with blackmail? )
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- Step 5: When the caller wishes to end his conversation he can either hit a
- key (like the '*') or just have whoever he called hangup. The Cat would dump
- the 3-way and tell the good & kind customer that:
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- Your call to Miami, Florida to 305-556-6858 lasted 12 minutes, 42 seconds.
- The tolls amount to 4 dollars, 21 cents which will be charged to your bill.
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- {Collect the bill personally or have him pay by check to _____ LDS}
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- Then after it has recorded all this wonderful information (plus printing the
- days take on the top of your screen) your Cat can ask Fred if he would like to
- make anyother calls now or simply hang up. I'm sure your system could do a
- variety of other things for Fred like crank calling his neighbors, but that is
- up to you and your system.
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- Well good! It made it this time. I originally typed this three days ago,
- except my AE blew up. I'll say one thing for it, AE sure does crash in style.
- I was inserting lines and all of a sudden we get all kinds of neat music from
- the speaker than boom. GONE! Anyways, being to devistated to find the Inspec
- and try to recover the file from memory, I went and had lunch.
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- I haven't really come to an answer on how feasible this idea is, but I guess
- it could be done with ome help from some of your advanced Phreak friends. A
- known way of get an annonomous (safety) line is having them change a payfone
- into a regular phone and forwarding the call to your system.
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- And as long as the FCC didn't get interested in you, you would be really safe
- and probably able to pull in a fair amount of extra cash for doing almost
- nothing. You could also charge your customers a one time sign up fee to be a
- user of your LDS.
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- The toll rate and area code/city converting may be done through various
- Applesoft programs available now (see Phone Utilities and Toll Rate Computer).
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