Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:28:23PM -0600, Mark Gregory (gregorym(a)cadvision.com) wrote: Should you decide not to keep it, please let me know. I've been passively looking for one of those for some time. They never made it a *whole* lot further than a demonstration. The idea behind them was exactly as you imagine -- various BBS-ish stuff available online -- think old Compuserve -- plus local stuff like a memo facility, phone directory (possibly shared throughout an organization), electronic mail, and so forth. It was just a little too far out at the time to see much use. Does yours use regular, home-type phone jacks, or centronics-ish old Meridian PBX connections? The only one I ever saw outside of a Northern Telecom booth (no Nortel back then!) was on the kitchen counter of a friend who worked at Northern in Belleville, Ontario. She used it as a phone with a big autodial directory, and to keep track of recipes. :-) Do they admit that "Northern Telecom" existed? :-) -Rich -- ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty --------------------------- Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625 ------------------------- rich(a)alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------