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In phone phreaking, a beige box is a device used to illegally use another person's phone line. It is technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset -- a telephone fitted with clips to attach it to a line.
In consumer computer products, a beige box is a generic personal computer -- thus, an Intel PC as opposed to a video game console, a Macintosh, or a Unix workstation. The term is also sometimes used to distinguish generic "clone" PCs from name-brand models such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Most generic PC cases are in fact beige in color.
