18 Aug
2000
18 Aug
'00
9:03 a.m.
Hello Mark
On 17-Aug-00, you wrote:
Regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
Box 6184
St. Joseph, MO 64506-0184
816-662-2612
or
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
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
Sounds quite similar to my GTE XT300 telephone/terminal in concept. Wish it
still worked, but the thing got hit by Mother Nature's fireworks . . . .
wonder if they could be the same?
Mine has a 9" b&w CRT display, a smallish keyboard, and a built-in 300 baud
modem. The telephone part is set up for two lines, but you can change it to
one. the whole thing looks like a shrunken terminal.