18 Aug
2000
18 Aug
'00
1:02 a.m.
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(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England