Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Aug 21 10:01:31 2000

Mark,

    I've got two DisplayPhones. They're neat devices. Depending on the
exact model, they have one of two phone lines, an RS-232 port and a printer
port. You can use some (all?) of them as terminals with built-in MODEMs.
They're also used as a small phone system. They can store telephone numbers
and they'll track the amount of time that each call last. They can also be
used as a speaker phone. I've never been able to find instructions for
them but the features are easy to access via the menu and it's easy to
figure out after playing with one for a few minutes.

     Joe

At 07:28 PM 8/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Found something cool in the thrift shop that I've never seen before - a
>Northern Telecom Displayphone (model NT6K00AM), ca. 1984.
>
>It seems to be an early attempt at computer/telephone integration -
>basically a data terminal integrated with a telephone. There's a very clear,
>legible screen, a full keyboard that hides in the main unit, and really nice
>touch-sensitive controls for the phone functions. On the back are an RS-232C
>port and a parallel port.
>
>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.
>
>Cheers,
>Mark Gregory
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 21 2000 - 10:01:31 BST