Collaborate Disseminate
The TA-1042 is the most badass looking telephone you’ll ever see. It’s a digital military telephone from the 1980s, but sadly non-functional unless it’s hooked up to the military phone …read more Continue reading Cold War Military Telephones Now Usable Thanks To DIY Switch Build
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while we stumble upon someone who has taken obsolete but really cool phone-switching equipment and built a private switched telephone in …read more Continue reading Homebrew Telephone Exchange Keeps the Family in Touch, in the House and Beyond
At the risk of dating myself, I will tell you that grew up in the 80s — that decade of excess that was half drab and half brightly colored, depending …read more Continue reading Teardown: KC Bearifone Could Talk Circles Around Teddy Ruxpin
The curtain of state secrecy which surrounds the type of government agency known primarily by initialisms is all-encompassing and long-lived, meaning that tech that is otherwise in the public domain …read more Continue reading A Secure Phone Fit For A Prime Minister
We can’t condone what [Bertrand] did as a kid to make him a fan of payphones, but we get his desire to have one of his own in his home. …read more Continue reading A Home Payphone
We find out why calls to Dublin airport’s noise complaints line have soared, and Carole quizzes Graham to celebrate World Password Day.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast, with compu… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #273: Password blips, and who’s calling the airport?
Restoring classic hardware of any sort is a great hobby to have, whether it’s restoring vintage cars, tools, or even antique Apple or Commodore computers. Understanding older equipment can help …read more Continue reading Dial Into the Internet Like It’s 1999
We’ve seen a few interesting magnetic core memories on these fine pages over the years, but we don’t recall seeing too many user programmable magnetic core memory devices. This interesting …read more Continue reading Soviet-Era Auto Dialler Uses Magnetic Rope Core Memory
If you thought programming your 1990s VCR was rough, wait until you see this Russian telephone autodialer that [Mike] took apart over on the mikeselectricalstuff YouTube channel (video below the break). [Mike] …read more Continue reading Threaded Wires Save Phone Numbers
Hot on the heels of their carbon microphone build a few years ago, [Simplifier] strung up a two-phone network between the house and the workshop. Both telephones are completely DIY …read more Continue reading The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House (or Workshop)