Read an article about building a Redbox either on the 2600 Usenet group or some other hack/phreak BBS probably around 1993. Went to radio shack the next day to buy the tone dialer and crystal. I messed up the solder pretty bad but it still works to this day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_box_(phreaking)

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yeah that’s good stuff…I messed up my crystal solder job enough that the rest of the dialer circuit wouldn’t work…I tried a tape recorder instead but using that just got the at&t operator to harass me

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