Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Thu Aug 17 21:58:07 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Lafferty" <rich_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
To: "Mark Gregory" <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Cc: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone


> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:28:23PM -0600, Mark Gregory
(gregorym_at_cadvision.com) wrote:
> > Found something cool in the thrift shop that I've never seen before - a
> > Northern Telecom Displayphone (model NT6K00AM), ca. 1984.
>
> Should you decide not to keep it, please let me know. I've been
> passively looking for one of those for some time.
>

I think I'd like to add it to my collection, but I'll keep you in mind if I
ever have to cull the herd again.

>
> Does yours use regular, home-type phone jacks, or centronics-ish old
> Meridian PBX connections?
>

Mine uses normal home phone jacks. Best of all, everything (at least the
phone functions)still seems to work . I'll post some pictures once I get my
Website up.

>>The Nortel Website doesn't even admit this phone ever existed.
>
> Do they admit that "Northern Telecom" existed? :-)
>

Barely ... its funny how some organizations (like IBM) have very long
institutional memories, while others (Nortel, Sony) act like anything that
happened before last Tuesday is ancient history.

There's a large Nortel presence here in Calgary, so I suspect this phone
came from some Northern Telecom'ers basement or den. Maybe I'll try calling
their customer support line and ask if the data services for this phone are
still available...

Thanks for the information.

Mark.
Received on Thu Aug 17 2000 - 21:58:07 BST

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