2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 1988

The first volume published quarterly: four digest-sized issues in place of twelve monthly sheets, the format 2600 has kept for the thirty-eight years since.

Spring runs "Monitoring Phone Calls," "The Hacker Threat," "A ROLM Catastrophe," "Private Sector Scam Revisited" and AT&T/BOC routing codes. Summer prints "A Solution To Viruses" beside "How To Write a Virus," together with "Building a Red Box," "Allnet's Legal Problems" and a reply to Captain Zap. Autumn covers outside loop information, cellular phones, a map of the 516 area code and a red box program, and asks "Who Was Strowger?" Winter opens with "The Internet Worm Story," the magazine's account of the worm that had taken down much of the network that November, and adds a hacker's guide to UNIX, "Overhearing Phone Calls," "Soviet Operators," "Hardwiring Free Calls" and a report on the Chaos Computer Club.

Red boxes arrive in the catalogue here, with construction plans in Summer and a program in Autumn. The magazine returned to the subject for the next fifteen years, through "The Ten Dollar Red Box" in 1994 and "Why Redboxing Still Works (sorta)" in 2003.