17 Aug
2000
17 Aug
'00
2 p.m.
As I remember the Displayphone it was designed for the hurried executive who
needed both dumb/text terminal access to the corporate information system
and a telephone on his or her desk, but couldn't afford to have both so
voila le Displayphone.
There was also a second model called the Displayphone 2000 although one
can't easily tell the difference by an exterior examination.
Yours in good faith.
Kevin Stumpf - The Nostalgic Technophile - Unusual Systems
www.nostalgictechnophile.com - 519.744.2900 EST/EDT (GMT - 5)
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Gregory <gregorym(a)cadvision.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:28 PM
Subject: Fun find - Northern Telecom Displayphone
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