blue box

also n. Slang
An electronic device having a tone pulsator that prevents telephone equipment from registering long-distance charges.

Contact Information Blue Box Holdings Ltd. 1203 East Ocean Center, 98 Granville Rd., Tsimshatsui East Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel. +852-3510-0100 Fax +852-2724-3896

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.blueboxtoys.com

Blue Box Holdings (operating through Blue Box International) makes infant and preschool toys, as well as video game action figures and military action figures. Blue Box brands include Nature's Own Jungle and Blue Ribbon Ranch. The company's popular video game figures include Perfect Dark and Legend of Dragoon characters, and its Elite Force military action figure line depicts various military organizations from different time periods. The company has a strong presence in the US market, selling products at mass retailers such as Toys "R" Us, Target, and Wal-Mart. Blue Box is based in Hong Kong and operates three manufacturing plants in China. The company was founded in 1952 by chairman Peter Chan Pui.

Officers:
Chairman: Peter Chan Pui
CEO: David Chan
VP Marketing and Business Development: Mike Murphy

Competitors:
Hasbro
JAKKS Pacific
Mattel

A programming interface for the Rhapsody operating system from Apple, which later became Mac OS X. The Blue Box is the Mac Toolbox API, which enables a Mac OS 9 or previous Mac application to run without modification. The Blue Box was renamed the Classic interface in OS X. See MAC OS X and Yellow Box.

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n.

1. obs. Once upon a time, before all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to move them out of band, one could actually hear the switching tones used to route long-distance calls. Early phreakers built devices called blue boxes that could reproduce these tones, which could be used to commandeer portions of the phone network. (This was not as hard as it may sound; one early phreak acquired the sobriquet “Captain Crunch” after he proved that he could generate switching tones with a plastic whistle pulled out of a box of Captain Crunch cereal!) There were other colors of box with more specialized phreaking uses; red boxes, black boxes, silver boxes, etc. There were boxes of other colors as well, but the blue box was the original and archetype.

2. n. An IBM machine, especially a large (non-PC) one.

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