1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

(oldtelephoneroom.ca)

30 points | by arexxbifs 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • inigyou 4 minutes ago
    That was a brilliant move by the telecom company to sell a huge batch of useless extra phones to poor suckers Commodore.

    They are useless because they're identical to the customer's own phone except for the fact they say Commodore.

  • userbinator 1 hour ago
    Telco regulations were also why modems used an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler instead of being directly connected.

    As an aside, the em-dash density of this article is one of the highest I've ever seen.

    • ttul 1 hour ago
      My first year English teacher would be impressed. The lack of em dash characters in a paper would get you a failing grade back in 1995.
    • Stratoscope 1 hour ago
      I love the em dash–and I didn't even notice them in this article.
      • userbinator 5 minutes ago
        It's not just the em-dash—it's the style of writing. The short paragraphs. The Consistent Titled Sections. Classic LLMese at its finest.
  • classichasclass 2 hours ago
    Commodore made all kinds of wacky stuff back in the day before they concentrated entirely on computers and peripherals. I have a Commodore AM radio and a couple of Commodore wristwatches, chickenhead logos and all, not to mention the calculators and typewriters which were their original bread and butter.
  • wolvoleo 1 hour ago
    We had similar idiotic regulations in Holland. Most people rented their phone though they did have a plug (albeit a special one we called the pigs nose).

    But in the 80s nobody gave a crap anymore and we just connected whatever we wanted. Aftermarket and technically illegal phones were sold everywhere.

  • _-_-__-_-_- 2 hours ago
    This website is so nerdy and so cool!
  • mattbaconz 26 minutes ago
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