14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
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4:25 p.m.
I used to have 1/2 of one. Not the handset but the cradle and box. I tossed it. What would
the whole thing have been worth? Nothing on eBay right now.
14 Sep
14 Sep
5:26 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
I used to have 1/2 of one. Not the handset but the
cradle and box. I
tossed it. What would the whole thing have been worth? Nothing on eBay
right now.
Not much.
It was 900MHz and did not work very well, so not of much interest to those
who would actually want to use it.
8:52 p.m.
Never even heard of it before... so they killed I with that one model?
No 2.4ghz or higher models later on?
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
I used to have 1/2 of one. Not the handset but
the cradle and box. I
tossed it. What would the whole thing have been worth? Nothing on eBay
right now.
Not much.
It was 900MHz and did not work very well, so not of much interest to those
who would actually want to use it.
9:05 p.m.
On Sep 14, 2012 6:01 PM, "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
wrote:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cordless_Phone_System
Never even heard of it before... so they killed I with that one model?
No 2.4ghz or
higher models later on?
9:08 p.m.
Never even heard of it before... so they killed I with
that one model? No
2.4ghz or higher models later on?
It seems that every good sized computer company explores the telephone
market, and many actually bring some sort of product to market, mostly
leading to disaster. USR, IBM, and Data General all come to mind.
--
Will
10:34 p.m.
On 14 Sep 2012 at 21:08, William Donzelli wrote:
It seems that every good sized computer company
explores the telephone
market, and many actually bring some sort of product to market, mostly
leading to disaster. USR, IBM, and Data General all come to mind.
IBM did pretty well with their acquisition of Rolm. I still have a
Rolm frisbee for playing with the dogs.
OTOH, telephone companies didn't do all that well in the computer
business.
--Chuck
11:12 p.m.
New subject: IBM and ROLM, was: Re: Microsoft cordless phone
On 14 Sep 2012, at 7:34 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
IBM did pretty well with their acquisition of Rolm. I
still have a
Rolm frisbee for playing with the dogs.
I was at MilSpec at the time that happened. From our perspective IBM borked it; they
should have purchased telcom from MilSpec rather than buying the entire lash up and being
pushed into the consent decree because of the conflict between MilSpec and their existing
Federal Systems division. OTOH for those of us at MilSpec it was great; our underwater
ROLM options got translated favorably into not-underwater-at-all IBM options (with a
dedicated banker on hand to write bridge loans for people who wanted to cash out); a sort
of retention trust fund was created to encourage employees not to jump ship and the
capital budget was endless; I believe I ordered two MV/10000s and three MV/4000s and
received *zero* pushback from anyone.
--
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15 Sep
15 Sep
2:51 a.m.
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Subject: Re: Microsoft cordless phone
On 14 Sep 2012 at 21:08, William Donzelli wrote:
Interesting perspective. In Europe IBM already was a telephone provider:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1750,_2750_and_3750_Switching_Systems
and in Europe the ROLM was not a success as a replacement. The IBM switches
used "normal" touch tone phones, where as the Rolm needed proprietary
handsets. Looks like they did better in the states,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROLM
but the data and telephony integration that the Rolm delivers just doesn't
work well for IBM sites where you use 5250 or 3270's on CO-AX or Twin-Ax
connections.
It seems that every good sized computer company
explores
the telephone
market, and many actually bring some sort of
product to
market, mostly
leading to disaster. USR, IBM, and Data General
all come to mind.
IBM did pretty well with their acquisition of Rolm. I still have a
Rolm frisbee for playing with the dogs.
OTOH, telephone companies didn't do all that well
in the computer
business.
I think again it might be different in Europe. Is Siemens a Telephone or a
Computer company? They did pretty well at both...
--Chuck
Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
14 Sep
14 Sep
9:30 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Never even heard of it before... so they killed I with
that one model?
yes
No 2.4ghz or higher models later on?
no
it was one of the early ordinary cordless phones with the base cradle
connected to a computer. "Do not use a portable or laptop computer."
It saved the caller ID data. It claimed to have a TTY/TDD cpability, but
nobody at MICROS~1 "tech support" could tell me how to open a TTY window,
with any more detail than reading aloud from the list of features: "It
says right here, 'Can do TDD communication'. We'll get back to you."
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