beige box (English, noun)
expansion: beige box (plural beige boxes)
Senses:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
qualifier: hacking
glosses: A device used in phreaking, technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset: a telephone fitted with alligator clips to attach it to a line.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A desktop computer in the style typical of personal computers of the 1980s and 1990s, having a boxy off-white case and CRT monitor.
glosses: An outdated personal computer.
tags: broadly
derogatory
Forms:
form: beige boxes
tags: plural