Telephone & terminal, computer
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- OBJECT TYPE
- desktop
- DATE
- 1985
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2004.0145.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Northern Telecom
- MODEL
- Displayphone/NT6K00AR
- LOCATION
- Belleville, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 3320
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- synthetic casing, handset, screen, keys, parts/ metal wire & parts/ cardboard information card
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 36.1 cm
- Width
- 29.0 cm
- Height
- 21.3 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Northern Telecom
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Belleville
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- mid 1980s +
- Canada
-
A Canadian designed & manufactured product. The Canadian company Bell Northern Research developed the concept of the Displayphone for Bell Canada; Northern Telecom subsequently designed and developed the Displayphone product. In 1981 Bell Canada conducted a market trial centred largely in Toronto, Ottawa & Montreal; Northern Telecom provided internal trial for users in the U.S.A. & Canada (Ref. 2). This example appears to have been used at one time by the Government of Canada in its Communications Canada dept. (see markings). - Function
-
A desktop office machine that combines the voice communication function of a telephone with the data reception capabilities of a computer terminal. - Technical
-
The Displayphone was marketed as an advanced intelligent terminal aimed at the business market. It was designed to simplify the office space by combining the computer terminal and telephone and minimizing the amount of desk top occupied. It combined the voice communication function of a telephone with the data reception capabilities of a computer terminal & allowed both functions to be used simultaneously. Users could dial unit to unit or to a host computer. Envoy, an email-like application, could be accessed with this equipment. The connections of this device indicate that the telephone & computer elements were completely independent & were merely housed in the same unit. It was connected to the switched telephone network by two standard lines & included a telephone handset, a small video screen, a hide-away keyboard & a built-in modem (Ref. 2). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- grey lettering reading "nt northern/ telecom" on casing/ white lettering on screen reads "Displayphone"/ labels on underside reads "nt northern / telecom/ Model/ NT6K00AR/ Displayphone" & "Date of Mfr. APRIL 1985"; "Made in Canada/ TELEPHONE APPLIANCES/ AND EQUIPMENT"; "MADE IN CANADA/ SER. NO. 003320/ NT6K00AR; "REL NO 42"; "U.S. PATENT NO./ 3760375/ THIS EQUIPMENT CONTAINS/ SOFTWARE PROTECTED BY/ COPYRIGHT RD 1979/ (C) 1983 Northern Telecom"; "MADE IN BELLEVILLE,/ ONTARIO , CANADA"; "Communications/ Canada/ 332 272 A"/ Northern Telecom warranty label/ FCC label/ label on casing read "TeleNews/ Toronto/ Call: 599-4323/ Outside Toronto Call: 1-800-387-9050/ Daily Newsline"/ card attached to casing reads "Dataforce/ System Station No. T-0012152-01 For service call/Pour service appelez 1-800-268-8190/ Contract No./Numero de Contrat 1E5105 Relate circuit No./ Numero de circuit associe 003320/ The Computer/ Communications/ Group/Le Groupe des/ communications/ informatique"/ black lettering on keyboard & keypad keys
- Missing
- appears complete
- Finish
- buff casing & handset/ charcoal grey keypad with buff keys/ black screen/ buff keyboard with grey & buff keys
- Decoration
- N/A
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Northern Telecom, Telephone & terminal, computer, 1985, Artifact no. 2004.0145, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2004.0145.001/
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