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Re: Phone tones as NeXT sound files.

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From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:54
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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?  :-)
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