Hi,
Are you sure it's DTMF? Most GPO 'phones were
pulse-dialing, even if
they
had a keypad. GPO exchanges didn't eespond ot DTMF
signals AFAIK.
Yes, it's definitely DTMF....it even has "*" and "#" buttons
either side of
the "0", unlike any other Trimphones I've seen in the wild.
According to the label on the bottom of the broken one, it was supplied by
BT rather than the GPO. There's nothing indicating any date of supply or
manufacture though.
A friend got these phones for me around about 1989/90. He was on an
industrial placement at Kidsgrove I think (working for either ICL or STC)
and came across an entire skip full of the things next to an office block
which was being refurbished.
I guess they were used on an internal exchange?
BTW Any idea when BT started "DTMF enabling" exchanges (presumably that came
in with "System X")? I've got a vague recollection of requesting tone
dialling around 1988 give or take a year, and having to have my number
changed since only one of the five exchanges covering this area at the time
was a System X exchange.
There may have neen an N-diagram for it (there's
an archive of
these on the web -- do a google search for 'N-diagram')....
Thanks, I'll go take a look.
I didn't think the ringer was that complicatated.
Can't you trace
out the schematic?
Well, I'm not sure it's just the ringer....when the phone was plugged into
the line and someone called the (trim)phone on my extension would completely
fail to ring. Also, the exchange would send them a single ring tone, then a
few seconds of silence (as if the call had been answered), then another
single ring....etc....
I suppose I should sit down and trace out the circuits. Most of the
"complicated" stuff seems to be on the keypad (the DTMF encoder), the rest
looks fairly straightforward.
Just a matter of getting up the enthusiasm, not easy at the moment as I'm
still fighting off the effects of coming off anti-depressants.... :-(
TTFN - Pete.