title: Blue box (disambiguation)
text: # Blue box (disambiguation)
  
  Blue box is an early phreaking tool that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console.
  
  Blue box may also refer to:
  
  ## Technology
  
  * Link Trainer or Blue Box, a flight simulator
  * Blue Box, a Mac OS 8 emulation layer from the Rhapsody OS which became the Mac OS X Classic Environment
  * MXR Blue Box, an octave effect for electric guitars
  * Nickname of Hessdalen AMS, as it uses a blue container
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * TARDIS, or "the blue box", a time machine and spacecraft in the British TV series Doctor Who
  * Blue Box (novel), a Doctor Who novel by Kate Orman
  * Blue Box (album), a 1996 album by Kate Ceberano
  * Blue Box (manga), a manga series by Kouji Miura
  * Bluebox Limited, a film production company
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Blue Box, common name for the tree species Eucalyptus baueriana and Eucalyptus magnificata
  * Blue box (WTO agreement), a subsidy category of the World Trade Organization
  * Blue box recycling system, initially a waste management system used by Canadian municipalities
  * A nickname for Kraft Dinner packaged stovetop macaroni and cheese
  * A British police box
  * A severe thunderstorm watch, in meteorology
  * JNF collection boxes, Jewish National Fund blue charity collection boxes
  