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  2. AT&T Merlin - Wikipedia

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    AT&T Merlin five-button telephone (voice terminal) manufactured in early 1980. AT&T Merlin is a corporate telephone system by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) that was introduced in late 1983, when it was branded American Bell Merlin. After the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, it was rebranded and later also supplied by Lucent and Avaya.

  3. Advanced American Telephones - Wikipedia

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    AT&T Consumer Products became responsible for leased telephones and manufactured telephones on January 1, 1984. AT&T Consumer Products was absorbed into AT&T Technologies in 1989. AT&T Consumer Products ceased operations of AT&T Phone Centers in 1995, deciding to simply focus on leasing equipment and on sales at department stores.

  4. Answering machine - Wikipedia

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    A Panasonic answering machine with a dual compact cassette tape drive to record and replay messages. An answering machine, answerphone, or message machine, also known as telephone messaging machine (or TAM) in the UK and some Commonwealth countries, ansaphone or ansafone (from a trade name), or telephone answering device (TAD), is used for answering telephone calls and recording callers' messages.

  5. Vertical service code - Wikipedia

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    As CLASS was an AT&T trademark, the term vertical service code was adopted by the North American Numbering Plan Administration. The use of vertical is a somewhat dated reference to older switching methods and the fact that these services can only be accessed by a telephone subscriber, going up ( vertically ) inside the local central office ...

  6. Bell System Practices - Wikipedia

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    A typical volume of Bell System Practices from the 1970s. The Bell System Practices (BSPs) is a compilation of technical publications which describes the best methods of engineering, constructing, installing, and maintaining the telephone plant of the Bell System under direction of AT&T and Bell Telephone Laboratories. [1]

  7. Talk:Answering machine - Wikipedia

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    As far as I can tell including what I've learned before from a video from the 8-bit guy, the AT&T model 1337 was NOT the first answering machine. It was the Telstar Call Control System from American Bell, which I think came out in the early 80s. PortalPuppy31 23:03, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

  8. Business telephone system - Wikipedia

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    Electronic shared-control systems led quickly to the modern hybrid telephone system, as the features of PBXs and key systems quickly merged. One of the most recognized such systems is the AT&T Merlin. Additionally, these more modern systems allowed a diverse set of features including: Answering machine functions; Automatic call accounting ...

  9. Western Electric hand telephone sets - Wikipedia

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    The first version of the new hand telephone sets was marked by AT&T as D-76869, a specification type for small quantities of new equipment. The device was described by George K. Thompson of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in United States patent No. 1508424 of 1924, without showing the handset that was still in development. [10]