The device that paved the way for Apple: 1972 'blue box' created by
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By Tim Collins, Daily Mail online, 1 December 2017
The revolutionary device was used with a keypad tethered to an ear piece. It fooled a phone company's switchboard by reproducing its specific tones. As a result, the user was able to get overseas phone calls without paying. Helped Wozniak and Jobs produce the first ever Apple 1 computer 4 years later.
A humble-looking device that is credited with starting the digital revolution has emerged 45 years later to reveal Apple's fraudulent beginnings.
The ground-breaking digital blue box was developed by Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1972 and was the inventor's first printed circuit board.
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