"beige box" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: beige boxes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} beige box (plural beige boxes)
  1. (telephony, hacking) 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. Categories (topical): Telephony, Telephony
    Sense id: en-beige_box-en-noun-NuoqeY3M Disambiguation of Telephony: 80 14 6 Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony
  2. (computing) A desktop computer in the style typical of personal computers of the 1980s and 1990s, having a boxy off-white case and CRT monitor. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-beige_box-en-noun-2OY2PaDB Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Coordinate_terms: black box, blue box, brown box, gray box, green box, orange box, purple box, red box, silver box, white box, yellow box
  3. (derogatory, by extension) An outdated personal computer. Tags: broadly, derogatory
    Sense id: en-beige_box-en-noun-TTiu6AAi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 30 46 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 24 31 45

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