>OK, so what are these recordings all about? Why are they here?<p>>Greetings fellow web trippers, my phone phreak handle is Mark Bernay and 35 years ago I used to go on phone trips. Yes, it's true: just like the people in the picture at the top, I would drive around to small towns primarily for the purpose of playing with their payphones. I often brought along my trusty Craig 212 portable 3-inch reel-to-reel tape recorder (this was before cassettes were popular) to record the phone noises and narrate information about them for my friends. I don't go on phone trips anymore and you are probably thinking that this is because I grew up, but no, I never did. The reason I stopped phone tripping is that all phones are about the same all over the country nowadays and they are really boring.<p>>This picture shows my recording equipment around 1968, which I used to edit these tapes and prepare them for playing on a public phone number. My current desk is just as messy, but with PC's instead of reel-to-reel tape recorders.<p>>There have been 1237108 accesses to this page.<p>.........................<p>>Secrets of the Little Blue Box (1971)<p><a href="https://www.ckts.info/downloads/articles/Esquire%20Magazine%20October%201971%20-%20Secrets%20Of%20The%20Little%20Blue%20Box.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ckts.info/downloads/articles/Esquire%20Magazine%...</a>