They sell replacement parts for refitting and reconditioning old telephony stuff. This particular page is for fixing up phones.
In addition to parts, they have a fascinating collection of telephony-related locks and keys.
The Hacktic Demon Dialer is a compact inband signalling device, aka a blue box. With many additional features. The DemonDialer was designed by Hacktic in 1991, see hacktic 14-15. The original design notes and schematics have been located, scanned, and cleaned up. The documentation has been assembled into PDFs for printing and binding.
Sarah Autumn's uploads to the Internet Archive. Lots and lots of historical Cold War and Bell Systems documents.
Formerly The Bell System Practices (BSP) Archive.
An indexed collection of 36832 telecom and related documents totaling more than 2 million pages.
T-shirts sold by the Connections Museum in Seattle.
PhreakScan is the premiere repository of interesting telephone numbers on the net. By phreaks, for phreaks.
This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box. No installation or administrative rights required!
Use the buttons below to play 2600 Hz, SF tones, MF tones, DTMF tones, and coin denomination tones. MF tones can also be played using the keyboard, as well as 2600Hz. Use K for KP, S for ST, and H for 2600 Hz.
We’re an amateur phone collective in Philadelphia! Are you a hacker, artist, or engineer? We need your help!
PhilTel is looking to install new (to us) payphones within the city of Philadelphia. Any payphone installed will be completely free-to-use, allowing the user to place calls within North America. Additionally, we would like to provide various experiences and services through the phones; these could be as simple as voicemail, fun as a phone number that randomly calls other payphones, or as complex as an integration with phone collectors’ networks to allow phone-phreaking and exploration!
Either alternative firmware or an app (it's not clear which) for the Flipper Zero which turns it into a white, blue, and red box.
ToneDef is a small, but powerful tone dialer application for Android featuring DTMF, blue box, and red box tone generation. Use the keypad, enter a predefined sequence, or select an entry from your contact list. F-Droid is currently the recommended way to install ToneDef.
This is a reimplementation in KiCad of Don Froula's (http://projectmf.org/) PIC-based bluebox. The circuit was by Don Froula and the board layout was by Phil Lapsley (http://explodingthephone.com). It is so named because of Don's production of a close replica to the bluebox pictured in the October 1971 Esquire article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box." This version is based upon the ATtiny85 microcontroller.
There are three branches in this repository. Branch 'v1' is as close a duplicate of the original board as I can manage. As is, this board forms its own lid for the Radio Shack 230-1801 enclosure. The 'v2' branch is modified such that it can fit in the bottom of the Radio Shack enclosure. That one is probably a better choice for replicating Don's replica. The master branch has been modified to fit a Hammond 1591XXM dimensions 3.3" x 2.2" or 85mm x 56mm) enclosure, which I feel is of much better quality and utility.
This board requires six volts DC. Two or four CR2032 coin cells can be mounted in onboard holders or six volts applied to an external power header. Keystone 103 holds one cell each. Keystone 1026 and MPD BH800S hold two cells each stacked. I chose to try the MPD BH800S because I was uncertain if the Keystone 1026 would fit within the confines of the case.
Firmware: https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-avr/
Instructions: https://661.org/proj/bluebox/ (archived)
This eBay seller stocks payphones and mounting components for same.
A still alive and updated archive of telephony information. Area codes, exchanges, regional telcos, rate centers, deployed hardware types, and more.
You can even search on some data sets.
This is F.O.B. (Flexible Orange Box), inspired by the popular S.O.B. (Software Orange Box) program for Windows.
When connecting SIP FXS devices with a Class 5 switch, the ATA will not see a Call Waiting presented to it when there is a Call Waiting. Thus, it is necessary to signal the FSK directly to the CPE in-band from the switch. Asterisk does not have any provision to do this, so this needs to be done with an external program.
This program is intended to be a legitimate Type II Caller ID Generator, used for the purpose of Call Waiting Caller ID (Of course, functionally, it can be used just like any other orange box to spoof call waitings if desired - we are not responsible for any misuse of this program). This allows you to send Call Waiting Caller ID to a remote endpoint, even if no Call Waiting is presented to the remote endpoint (e.g. Analog Telephone Adapter), allowing for CWCID to be provided even when advanced bridging capabilites are being used, by "orange boxing" in band for legitimate purposes.
They sell old phones, mods to same so they can be used with modern equipment, and replacement parts.
Handset receiver elements: https://www.oldphoneworks.com/receiver-elements/
Payphones: https://www.oldphoneworks.com/pay-phones/
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A Blue Box design that emulates classic Blue Box tones, plus 12 other historical tone modes. It produces 12 tone signalling systems used by phone phreaks to hack other more exotic system in the US and overseas, including early pre-cellular mobile telephone systems from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, including the classic bluebox and the DTMF suite. 12 memories of up to 32 tone sequences each. Sine waves from PWM.
Maybe make myself a con badge out of it?
The original homepage of IFJ. Maybe I can find someplace that still sells their stuff?
An archive of phreak programs for Atari, Commodore, Tandy and more.
A group of telephony hobbyists who restore and maintain old equipment. They figure out how to get their gear VoIP-enabled and built their own PSTN on top of the Net by hooking everything together. It's pretty serious, plus they document their work pretty well.