(German): the mid 1980s stories of calling Peter Norton for free from a German phone booth, and hacking the phone lines that mobile telecom equipment sales vans connected to.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/20
Two great German stories from the mid 1980s posted mid 2020.
They translate fine in Google, so enjoy!
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- Why we called Peter Norton for free from a German phone booth in the mid 1980s (yes, this is about Norton Disk Editor from Norton Utilities)
- Mobile German T-Punkt vans selling telephone equipment, that had to be parked near a phone booth so you could actually call, which of course could be used when the van was gone.
Some pictures and documentation to go with the Ado4 connectors:
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- [Wayback] Anschlussdose (Telefon) – Wikipedia: Ado 4 und Ado 8
- [Wayback] ADo4
Abbildung: Belegung von Stecker ADoS4 und Dose ADo4
- [Wayback] File:ADo4-Stecker.JPG – Wikimedia Commons
–jeroen
Twitter sources:
https://twitter.com/DerLinkshaender/status/1288935431443304477
https://twitter.com/isotopp/status/1289179945449607168
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