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This file was just to be a short set of definitions for those of you who don't know all the phreaking terms. This was requested by a few people on a small 312 board called The Magnetic Field Elite (312-966-0708, call, board has potential) like The Don. But I ....

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.... transfer sounds as sound enters a receiver, is transfered to an amount of voltage, sent through the telephone lines and decodes back to sound. A modem is based on a universal language of sounds transfered through the modem. Modem stands for the work Modulator/Demodulator This is like receiveing and sending. Now, with most modems, before connecting, tones just are just the same as the tones that a common phone can make. But the phone can make many tones and some have purposes that are very useful, tones that are reserved for At&t, and thus dangerous. To go through all the tone would be senseless and a book on tones alone could ....