Press 1 to receive a fax or 2 to transfer this call.
Press 1 to leave a message, 2 to receive a fax, 3 to transfer this call.
Press 1 to leave a message or 2 to receive a fax.
Thank you for calling 2600, the Hacker Quarterly.
Thank you for using 2600.
If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
If you need help, stay on the line and a Hacker will assist you shortly.
Press 1 if this person is good enough to speak to you.
Good afternoon.
To reach 2600 Magazine directly, call 516-751-2600.
For subscription information, press 1.
For the editorial department, press 2.
If you have a problem with an order, press 3.
For 2600 meeting information, press 4.
For information on the 2600 Voice BBS, press 5.
And for information on our Internet site, press 6.
To go back, press star.
For sub-info, 2 for editor, voicemail, 3 for sub-voicemail, 4 for meeting voicemail,
and star to go back to the main menu.
This is the announcements file.
Archive status has been changed.
Press 1 to change status to...
To check out your new messages, press 1.
If you're interested in your old messages, press 2.
To configure your mailbox, press 3.
And to send a personal message, press 4.
Archive status has been changed.
This message is...
That's not a valid document number.
Please try to pay more attention.
What are you, insane?
You know that's not your password.
The 2600 Voice BBS is here for people like you to be able to call in and share information of all sorts without having to have a computer.
This means you can call us from a pay phone, from work, from school, or anywhere in the world.
We're experimenting with all kinds of new technology in an ongoing effort to make this system work better.
The 2600 Voice BBS is available 24 hours a day at 516-473-2626.
The only cost is that of the phone call.
If you want to go back to the main menu, press star.
If you want to leave feedback for the 2600 Voice BBS, please do so at the sound of the tone.
When you're finished recording, press the pound key.
Yay!
Ed has been granted an unconditional emergency release from prison as of 5 p.m. on Friday, September 13th.
We're going to pick him up now.
We'll give you more details later.
Everybody, thanks for your support and your hard work.
Billion.
Welcome to the 2600 Moderated Voice Bulletin Board.
Welcome to the 2600 Unmoderated Bulletin Board.
Welcome to the Beyond Hope Voice BBS.
To skip this message, hit any key.
Beyond Hope will be taking place on August 8th, 9th, and 10th at the Puck Building in New York City.
The Puck Building is located on the corner of Lafayette and Houston Street.
The conference will cost $20 for the weekend.
And if you'd like to pre-register, simply make a check out to 2600 and mail that to Beyond Hope,
Care of 2600 Magazine, P.O. Box 848, Middle Island, New York, 11953.
And to make sure that you get your confirmation in time, please don't send anything after July 15th.
We'll be having all kinds of updates as far as speakers, panels, and how the whole network is going to be shaping up.
To get that kind of information, either listen to this board, ask as many questions as you want,
or tune in to our website, www.hope.net.
Hello, Alex. How are you?
This is the Board Administrator menu.
Press 1 for the Moderated Board, 2 for the Unmoderated Board,
and press star if you want to go back to the main menu.
Have a nice day.
Currently, we have two Bulletin Boards running on this system.
One is Moderated, one is not.
The Moderated Board has messages cleared approximately once a day.
The Unmoderated Board has messages cleared instantly.
However, they can be called back if we deem them to be unacceptable.
Unacceptable messages include things like credit card numbers, calling cards, stupid things like that,
people breathing heavily into the phone, and other assorted nonsense.
So use your common sense, and everybody will be happy.
Press 1 to review messages that still need to be approved.
Press 2 to review current board messages.
Press 1 to skip to the next message.
2 to delete this message.
3 to replay it.
Or 4 to change the status of this message.
Couldn't bring yourself to do it.
Well, okay.
We canceled your change.
To prove that you haven't already forgotten your new password,
please enter it again after the tone.
2600.com is the official 2600 Internet site that has existed since March of 1995.
Our Hacker FTP site is reachable at ftp.2600.com,
and our infamous website can be found at www.2600.com.
You can get immediate info on 2600 by sending email to info at 2600.com,
as well as a free index from index at 2600.com.
You can submit letters and articles to letters at 2600.com and articles at 2600.com, respectively.
2600.com users are people who have written for 2600 or have worked with us in various projects.
In order to get an account on 2600, you must fulfill one of those conditions
or trade a service or object that we're interested in.
We don't want anything that's stolen.
We're also interested in trading accounts with anyone who can get us a new top-level domain.
For instance, a 2600 account on a system in Albania would be considered a good trade
for an account on 2600.com, as would anything in the .gov or .mil domains.
If you have anything to offer or you'd like to leave comments on our site,
you can do so at the sound of the tone.
Otherwise, press star to go backwards.
When you're finished recording, press the pound key.
If that is correct, press one.
Otherwise, press any other key, except one.
Please play your touch tones now.
After five seconds of silence, we will tell you what we heard.
Company staff.
This message has been deleted.
It's gone.
There's no turning back.
Please hold while I transfer you a call.
Well, I'm not going to transfer you a call.
The machine's going to transfer you a call, but just hold on.
Hi, you've reached the editorial department.
If you're interested in writing for 2600, our requirements are fairly simple.
Just make sure your article is written from the hacker perspective
and covers a topic you feel is interesting for hackers to pursue.
Articles that are published in 2600 will get you one free year of 2600,
which can either be a year of subscription or a year of back issues,
as well as a free 2600 T-shirt.
If you write for us on a regular basis, you will also be able to get a voicemail account
and an Internet account.
Reader feedback, as well as very short pieces, is more likely to be considered as a letter,
which won't result in you getting anything except the pride of knowing that your letter was published.
To send either letters or articles to us, our address is 2600 Editorial,
P.O. Box 99, Middle Island, New York, 11953 in the United States.
To email letters or articles to us, the address is letters at 2600.com or articles at 2600.com.
If you send us email or a disk, please make sure that your submission is in ASCII text
so we won't have any compatibility problems.
We cannot call you back to tell you what you should write an article on.
That's something you have to decide for yourself.
If we decide to use it, we will contact you.
Because of the large amount of articles we get, this could take a few issues.
If you lose patience and decide to submit your article to another publication,
please let us know so that we can remove it from the pile.
Never submit your article to more than one publication at a time.
Now, if you have a message for us, you can leave it at the sound of the tone.
If you don't want to leave us a message, please hit star at this point to go back to the main menu.
When you're finished recording, press the pound key.
Hi, it's Manuel. I'm not around. I usually am somewhere else.
Leave a message, and at some point I'll hear it.
It's also possible I may do something about it.
You have chosen to leave us at this stage.
Well, thanks for calling.
Please enter the area code you want 2600 meeting information for.
You entered.
Enter your password, followed by the pound sign.
Okay, now you know that there's no pound signs and passwords,
but there's still a lot of other keys, so there's no way anyone's going to guess this,
if that's what you're trying to do.
Is there a problem?
Enter the passcode, followed by the pound sign.
We're waiting.
You know, we've got better things to do than sit around waiting for you to figure out how to hit a touchtone.
Enter the password, damn it, followed by the pound sign.
Enter your forwarding number after the tone, and terminate with the pound key.
Don't even think of putting a 900 number in here.
Enter a new password after the tone,
and please make sure that the password is hard enough for somebody to guess,
but easy enough for you to remember.
Got it? Okay.
Enter a new password after the tone.
Enter the pager number after the tone, and terminate with the pound key.
Enter your extension now.
Good evening.
Enter the name of the party you're trying to reach.
Follow that with a pound sign.
If your party has a Q or a Z in their name, simply use the 1 key instead of the Q or the Z.
Press 1.
To continue searching, press 2.
And to try another name, press 3.
For Argentina, press 1.
Australia, press 2.
Brazil, press 3.
England, press 4.
Germany, press 5.
Scotland, press 6.
Spain, press 7.
And Sweden, press 8.
To go back, press star.
For message from,
this option is not yet available.
Please check back in the future.
Message will not be forwarded.
That was close.
Your forwarding number has been changed, and for you to be able to do this means we must
really trust you.
Wow.
Can't say I approve, but, uh, who am I?
I'm just a disembodied voice.
To confirm forwarding, press 1.
To place an attachment, press 2.
You don't have forwarding options, so don't waste your time trying.
Message will be forwarded to,
Forwarding is off.
Message has been forwarded.
It'll get there when it gets there.
Forwarding is on.
To change forwarding status, press 1.
To change forwarding number, press 2.
If you keep hitting buttons and nothing seems to be happening,
it's because we're ignoring you.
You think we're stupid enough to allow forwarding in our system?
Enter the box number where you would like this message to be sent.
We don't guarantee it'll actually be sent there,
but we'll just record this for the record.
Please enter the area code you want 2600 meeting information for.
Enter the number of the category file you would like to record,
or the remote access digit to end this session.
It's very likely your old greeting sucks, which is why you're here.
If you want to hear it and remove all doubt, press 1.
If you want to record a brand new greeting that will make you very popular, press 2.
And if you don't have any imagination whatsoever and you want to use the system greeting, press 3.
Although we should point out, you may regret it.
Thank you for using 2600.
Enter the number of the message you want to go to, followed by the pound sign.
Thanks for calling.
I'm too lazy to make my own greeting, so this is the system generic greeting.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Maybe I'll get back to you.
Thank you.
This is what your greeting sounds like.
Well, either you're planning some massive tour of the country, or you're just wasting our time.
Either way, it's about time you did something else, don't you think?
Hundred.
Hey, guess what?
I've got a message for...
To hear current information file, press 1.
To record a new information file, press 2.
To hear current description file, press 3.
And to record a new description file, press 4.
To hear your next message, press 1.
To wipe this message off the face of the earth, press 2.
To listen to this message again, press 3.
And if none of that suits you, you want to have a list of more options.
Press 4.
To change password, press 1.
To change voice message options, press 2.
There is no such area code.
At least, not yet.
Heh heh.
That was an invalid option.
That was not a valid box number.
Uh-uh.
That is an invalid option.
You have selected...
If you know the category number, please press 1 now.
Otherwise, press any other key.
Meaning, any other key except 1.
Thank you.
To leave a message, enter the extension of the person you want to leave a message for.
Or if you want to spell out their name, press 1.
You've reached 2600 Magazine, the Hacker Quarterly.
To get involved in the Bernie S. protest, press 9 now.
If you want to leave voicemail for someone, press 1.
To get subscription information, press 2.
For the editorial department, press 3.
If you're having problems with an order, press 4.
For 2600 meeting information, press 5.
For information on the Voice BBS, press 6.
For information on our internet site, 2600.com, press 7.
To repeat these options, press 8.
If you want to speak to a human, press 0 or stay on the line.
You've reached the 2600 Voicemail System.
To get involved in the Bernie S. protest, press 7 now.
If you want to connect to the Voice BBS, press 1.
To leave voicemail for someone, press 2.
To hear voice files, press 3.
For special phone services, press 4.
And to get information about 2600, press 5.
Enter your mailbox number now.
If you'd like to leave voicemail for someone, press 1.
For subscription information, press 2.
For the editorial department, press 3.
If you're having a problem with an order, press 4.
For 2600 meeting information, press 5.
If you'd like information on our Voice BBS, press 6.
For information on our internet site, press 7.
To repeat these options, press 8.
And to reach a human, press 0 or hold the line.
Welcome to the 2600 Voice BBS.
To enter the BBS section, press 1.
To enter the 2600 Voicemail System, press 2.
For voice files, press 3.
For special phone services, press 4.
And for information on 2600, press 5.
This is the 2600 Voice BBS.
To enter the BBS section, press 1.
To enter the 2600 Voicemail System, press 2.
For voice files, press 3.
For special phone services, press 4.
For information on 2600, press 5.
Please press a button.
Please press now.
Hello?
Is anybody there?
Okay, enter the BBS section, press 1.
To enter the 2600 Voicemail System, press 2.
For voice files, press 3.
For special phone services, press 4.
For information on 2600, press 5.
Please press a button.
There are other people waiting.
Thank you.
All right, look.
Either you're some kind of moron that calls a voicemail system without a touch-tone phone,
or you just walked away from the phone or something like that.
Either way, we're losing patience here.
This is your last chance.
To enter the BBS section, press 1.
Enter the 2600 Voicemail System, press 2.
For voice files, press 3.
For special phone services, press 4.
For information on 2600, press 5.
Press a button now.
When you're finished recording, press the pound key.
Message.
Messages.
Million.
January.
February.
March.
April.
May.
June.
July.
August.
September.
October.
November.
December.
If you would like to continue, press the star key sometime soon.
Good morning.
Okay, we're moving on to the next message.
2600 has meetings all over the world, and they all take place on the first Friday of every
month from 5 to 8 p.m. local time, unless otherwise noted.
If you're looking for meetings inside the United States and Canada,
press 1.
If you're looking for meetings outside the United States and Canada, press 2.
If you want to leave us voicemail concerning future meetings, press 3.
If you have no interest whatsoever in meetings, press star.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, we really don't know what you're doing here, because your name is something
that you should carry with you through your whole life.
If you want to change your name, it's kind of strange, but okay, we'll accommodate you.
If you want to know what your current name is, you really should get medical attention, but
for now, you can press 1 to hear what your name is, in case for some reason you've forgotten.
Now, if you've decided to take on a new identity and you want to put a new name on this system,
can't stop you.
Press 2.
Here is your new greeting.
Brand new.
New message.
New messages.
There is no such area code.
At least, not yet.
Something's really screwed up.
A required file was not found.
You'd better contact the system administrator.
You might want to do it anonymously.
There is currently no forwarding number.
No, no, no, no.
You blew it.
Your passwords don't match.
And if you made a mistake this early on, we can only imagine how many times you're going
to get it wrong in the future.
There are no more.
No.
Sorry, but no names were found matching your entry.
You can press 1 to try another name, or star, to abort.
Please don't press any other keys.
If you're calling from the fax machine on which you'd like to receive your fax, press 1.
Otherwise, press 2.
You can only listen to Off the Hook between 6 a.m. and 12 noon eastern time.
We hope to change this when we have more phone lines, but for now, an hour-long program is
too long to have on a single phone line.
10, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, 10, 11, 12,
18, 19, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90.
This is the Off the Hook file.
Oh.
Really old.
Old message.
Old messages.
If this message is so good that you have to forward it to somebody else, press 1.
If it's a ransom message or something, you need to find out the time and date it was recorded,
press 2.
To archive the message, sweep it under the rug, so to say, press 3.
And if you just want to go back in time and hear the previous message, press 4.
Your caller ID is showing out of area, which means that you may not have caller ID capabilities
from where you're calling or you're calling from some place that doesn't pass it on to us.
Pager number has been changed.
You don't have pager options, so it's a big waste of time.
Paging is off.
Paging is on.
To change paging status, press 1.
To change paging number, press 2.
Password has been changed.
This is the phone services section.
Press 1 if you have a string of touchtones you'd like us to decode.
Press 2 if you'd like us to tell you your caller ID info.
Or press star to go back to the main menu.
After you hear the beep, record the message that you want to post, and follow that with a pound sign.
Pound.
Press.
This is the prison file.
Your caller ID is blocked, meaning caller ID info was sent, but it's showing up as private.
Please hold while I process your entry.
Actually, it doesn't take us very much time at all to do anything.
We just do that to keep you from doing anything.
And I'm not doing anything either.
I'm just a voice, so I don't even know why I'm saying this.
To continue, press 1.
To delete this response, press 2.
To listen to this response again, press 3.
Enter a document number and follow that by the pound sign if you want to choose more documents.
Or follow it by the star key if you're finished selecting documents.
Record your new greeting after the tone and terminate with the pound sign.
Good luck.
Record a new prompt after the tone.
If you're certain this is what you want to say and you want to save this message, press 1.
If you're not so sure you want to hear it again, press 2.
If you know you screwed up and you want to try over and re-record the message, press 3.
And if you just want to give up totally and discard the message, press 4.
To change your greeting, press 1.
To change your name, press 2.
To change your password, press 3.
To change forwarding options, press 4.
And to change pager options, press 5.
Oh, and if you want to reply to this message, you can press 5.
Okay, please record your message after the tone.
But if you're planning on using the pound sign as part of your message,
don't do it because hitting the pound sign will terminate the message.
So, record the message and then hit a pound sign when you're finished.
Thank you.
Response.
We could stay here all day doing this, but I'm afraid our patience has reached an end.
Message has been saved.
Hallelujah.
Please state your name after the tone.
And no funny business.
Hey, it's me, the voicemail system, and you've got a call from...
The number you entered was...
Run over to your fax machine and press start now.
Star.
2600 Magazine, The Hacker Quarterly, is published quarterly.
Our subscription rate for individuals in the United States and Canada is $21 in U.S. funds, $30 elsewhere.
If you're a corporation, governmental institution, or you require us to invoice you,
the rate is $50 in the United States and Canada, $65 elsewhere.
Back issues are available from 1984 to the present at a rate of $25 per year in the United States and Canada, $30 elsewhere.
1984 through 1987 back issues can only be purchased in one-year sets.
All other issues can be purchased individually for $6.25 each in the United States and Canada, $7.50 elsewhere.
We don't take credit cards.
If you want to check out a sample copy of 2600, just send us $4.
And if you're interested in subscribing as a lifetime subscriber, which means basically until either you or us go out of existence,
the rate is $260 no matter where you are or who you are.
And in addition, you'll get the first three years of 2600, 1984, 1985, and 1986 included at no additional charge.
In addition, we'll throw in two T-shirts.
That's right.
2600 has T-shirts available in two styles, the blue box schematic and the Michelangelo virus.
Both shirts have white lettering on a black background, and each has a collage of newspaper clippings on the back.
Shirts are available in medium, large, and extra large for $15 each, two for $26.
There is no additional charge for shipping overseas.
Make all checks or money orders payable to 2600.
Our address is 2600, P.O. Box 752, Middle Island, New York, 11953, United States of America.
If you're having any kind of problem with your subscription, please leave us a message here, and we will get back to you.
Orders can take up to six weeks to get to you, so please make sure that amount of time has elapsed before leaving us a message.
If you've changed your address, please note that magazines are not automatically forwarded.
If you're planning on changing your address, please notify us as early as possible.
We need the numbers off the top of your address label in order to do this over the phone so we can verify your identity.
If you don't have your address label, you must fill out an official post office address change form
and send that to us at 2600, P.O. Box 752, Middle Island, New York, 11953 in the United States.
If you want to go back to the main menu, press star.
Otherwise, leave us a message at the sound of the tone.
When you've finished recording, press the pound key.
The time and date are now off.
The time and date are now on.
This is a test for the new bulletin board system.
Push 1 for the admin section.
Push 2 for the regular user board.
Thousand.
That number is too high.
Try entering a smaller number.
To get a hold of...
Trillion.
This is the tutorial file.
Enter your box number, followed by the pound sign.
Did you forget your box number?
Would you like me to tell you what your box number is?
I can't do that.
What, do you think I'm crazy?
I can't tell you your box number.
You have to remember this yourself.
And look, you're going to be using this system.
You're going to have to remember a lot of things,
including, you know, rules of what to do, what not to do,
your password, and your box number.
Obviously, you're going to have some major problems ahead of you.
Why don't you hang up?
Maybe take a rest or something.
Call us back.
Maybe you'll remember it then.
Okay, enter the box number of the party you're trying to reach.
Press 1 to hear the next message.
2 for the previous message.
3 to replay the current message.
4 to hear the first message.
5 to hear the last message.
6 to post your very own message.
7 to toggle the time and day.
Or star to go back to the previous menu.
This is the 2600 Voice Bulletin Board system.
Press 1 for the moderated board.
Press 2 for the unmoderated board.
Press 3 for the Beyond Hope board.
Or press 0 if you need instructions.
If you want to go back, just press star.
This is the Voice Files section.
Press 1 to hear the latest edition of Off the Hook.
Press 2 for tutorials.
Press 3 for updates from prison.
Press 4 for announcements.
If you want to go back to the main menu, press star.
You've got...
A.M.
P.M.
Enter the phone number of your fax machine, followed by the pound sign.
Only enter the phone number of your fax machine, not someone you want us to call.
Thank you.
Your new box number is...
You have recorded...
Your new password is...
Zero.