Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone

From: John Honniball <John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk>
Date: Fri Aug 18 08:02:50 2000

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:
>
> > Found something cool in the thrift shop that I've never seen before - a
> > Northern Telecom Displayphone (model NT6K00AM), ca. 1984.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me more about this system, and how they were used? A
> > Web-search using several engines and a dejanews search yielded nothing
> > useful. The Nortel Website doesn't even admit this phone ever existed.

I have a similar kind of thing, make in the UK by ICL.
It's optimistically called a "One Per Desk" and is based on
the Sinclair QL (68008). It can connect to two phone lines
and has a built-in modem and a telephone handset. It can't
operate as a telephone answering machine, though, because
at the time (1983?) only British Telecom were allowed to do
that. The computer section has the inevitable phone number
database and auto-dialler, but is limited by its reliance
on Sinclair Micro-Drives (tape loop cartridges).

And just to link this to the SMPSU thread, this was the
machine whose PSU split a transistor in half.

--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
Received on Fri Aug 18 2000 - 08:02:50 BST

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