k0ua
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c'mon Crash, tell us about this illegal Apple device.
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crash325
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Not sure they were blue. Maybe several color,.
It was a numbered key pad & speaker the generated the tones used for long distance calls. The calls did not show up on your bill.
They did not discover this.
Even tougher question,
How or who discovered it??? Name not required as I don't remember it either.
Hint The Person was severely handicapped.
A fun question.
We all take coffee for granite. At one time long ago coffee was only for royalty & grown in their gardens. A man could even be put to death for messing with the plant or seeds.
One brave guy did something sneaky that almost cost him his life.
What did he do??? & how did it almost kill him???
Hint it has to do with water.:laughing:
It was a numbered key pad & speaker the generated the tones used for long distance calls. The calls did not show up on your bill.
They did not discover this.
Even tougher question,
How or who discovered it??? Name not required as I don't remember it either.
Hint The Person was severely handicapped.
A fun question.
We all take coffee for granite. At one time long ago coffee was only for royalty & grown in their gardens. A man could even be put to death for messing with the plant or seeds.
One brave guy did something sneaky that almost cost him his life.
What did he do??? & how did it almost kill him???
Hint it has to do with water.:laughing:
k0ua
Epic Contributor
There is more to this story, and they were just called "blue boxes" they generated a set of touch tones that were used at the time as in-band signalling in the long distance network. Different tones than the normal keypad on your phone, Also there is the little matter of the 2600hz disconnect tone. The story goes that this tone was discovered by the "phreakers" accidentally by blowing on a Captain Crunch whistle that was free in boxes of Captain Crunch cereal. You dialed an 800 number, then blew the 2600hz tone whistle to dump the 800 call, leaving you still connected to the LD network, then inject the signalling tones.. And away you go. Or so I have heard I don't really know anything about this sort of activity.
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crash325
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Time for a little more fun. News is mostly depressing.
Why was the colt single action called a 6 shooter??? it was mostly loaded with 5 cartridges.
Western shows most always talk or tell about the 45 caliber.
Was it the most popular caliber?? Why??
Hope to keep this going for a while.
Speak up boys & girls.
Jim
Why was the colt single action called a 6 shooter??? it was mostly loaded with 5 cartridges.
Western shows most always talk or tell about the 45 caliber.
Was it the most popular caliber?? Why??
Hope to keep this going for a while.
Speak up boys & girls.
Jim
k0ua
Epic Contributor
Colt themselves called the Model P "the Colt frontier sixshooter" When chambered for the cartridge called the 44WCF which which we now call the 44-40 cartridge. I believe the Colt's frontier sixshooter was etched on the side of the barrel. When chambered in 45 Colt, it was usually called the Army model. As all of the revolvers of that kind delivered to the army were chambered in .45 Colt.
However I think a lot of them got stoked with .45 Schoefield cartridges (shorter in length) as there was the quartermaster logistics of providing 2 kinds of ammo when the Schoefield model was also issued. The "six shooter" had 6 chambers, although it was much safer to carry it with 5 cartridges and the hammer down on an empty chamber as the hammer mounted firing pin could accidentally contact the primer if dropped. The old Schoefield cartridge was much like the difference between .38 special and .357 magnum today.. All .357 magnum revolvers can fire the shorter and milder .38 special round.
The model P was made in many calibers, but the 44WCF (Winchester Center Fire) was very popular because of the interchangeability of ammunition with a very popular rifle in the same caliber the Winchester 73 lever action. Which Winchester never did make in .45 Colt. Hence the popularity of the 44WCF or 44-40 as we know it today.
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crash325
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I can see you have done your home work. Congrats. :drink:
The top break revolvers were almost as dangerous to the shooter as those being shot at. Any of them much over a 22 cal were subject to blowing open & the shell casing could do some serious damage to the shooter.
I sill wonder why old westerns most always say 45 colt. ???
The Army abandoned the 45 for a 38 cal revolver, it proved to be not so hot. Why??
Then now they went from a 45 cal to the 9mm ( 38 cal) dumb & dumber.
Yea it carries more rounds, but you need a lot of them to do the damage of a 45 ca.
k0ua
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In the phillipines campaing in I think about the 1890's the 38 long colt revolvers did not do so hot on the Moros tribesmen.. Some say it was because of drug use by the tribesmen.. I don't know but the old 38 long colt cartridge was not all that hot.. So when semi- auto pistols became all the rage around the turn of the century the government went looking for a semi auto pistol in at least .45 caliber. The rest as they say is history.
k0ua
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Crash, you are gonna have to get up pretty early in the morning to stump me on pistols.
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crash325
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Crash, you are gonna have to get up pretty early in the morning to stump me on pistols.
AWE SHUCKS. Give me credit for trying. Have you ever shot TOP Brake revolver ???
Was there ever a semi auto revolver???
Come on folks there there are thousands of Trina things other than guns.
How hot does it get on the moon??
How cold does it get???