What is this? Strange keyboard

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Fri Oct 30 20:24:52 1998

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Joe wrote:

> I was wondering through a trift store the other day and found a odd
> keyboard. It's labeled "CompuNET 2000" and looks like a regular 101 key
> keyboard for a PC but it has two extra cables with miniture phono plugs on
> the ends. One with two contacts and the other with three. It also has two
> phone jacks on the back of the keyboard. There are a couple of extra keys
> on the board. One is marked PHONE and the other is marked LINE. Some of
> the numeric key pad keys are marked REDIAL, MUTE, VOL, OPER, etc. anyone
> know what this is for?

I think this was a keyboard with a built-in phone. This is pretty recent
(within the last two years). It was good for call centers (i.e.
operations with lots of telephone operators for telemarketing or what
not). I have brochures for it somewhere.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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