[GreenKeys] Fwd: AT&T Computer DATA Telephone
Don Robert House
[email protected]
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:37:47 -0800
I was having air lifts put on my truck when this was final. I hope
the new owner takes good care of it. There are no services that use
a display phone any more so I do not know what they are going to do
with it.
Don
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>From: Steve Schlink <[email protected]>
>Subject: AT&T Computer DATA Telephone
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>Don,
>
>I guess you were on the road when this sold. Tom (the seller) sent me this.
>It looks like it was more telephone than teletype anyway.
>
>Hope your trip went well.
>
>Steve
>
>At 05:27 PM 3/4/2003 -0500 Tom Adams wrote:
>
>>Hi Steve,
>>Looks like Don missed out. I did in fact get an email from the real inventor
>>today and this is what he said about the thing. Interesting anyway.
>>Regards,
>>Tom
>>
>>> I was in the Bell Labs research department for 37 years.
>>> Back in the early 70's (I think) I proposed a computer
>>> enhanced telephone. Knowing that a catchy name would not
>>> hurt I called it GETSET for something like General purpose
>>> Electronic Telephone SET. It had a 5" CRT display and
>>> there
>>> were 10 buttons, 5 on each side of the screen for a
>>> repretory dialer with names on the screen. It was the size
>>> of the standard '500'set and had a 2 finger comlete
>>> typwriter key board. We, Bob Anderson, Pete Kubic, and I
>>> made several of them and they were a big hit. It was
>>> decided
>>> to have a trial using the top brass at Bell Labs. I lost
>>> control and modifications were made. Those in control
>>> decided to have a keyboard that one could touchtype with,
>>> the screen buttons were removed and it got much bigger.
>>> We built 20 or 30 for the trial and the project went to
>>> Development. This is where the one you have must have
>>> built
>>> I believe the project died because the 2 engineers in
>>> charge were on the plane going to Russia that the Koreans
>>> shot down.
>>> Dave Hagelbarger
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Steve Schlink" <[email protected]>
>>To: "Tom Adams" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:13 PM
>>Subject: Re: [TCI] Ebay content - may be rare
>>
>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> I think that the terminal is a data display terminal, not a video display
>>> terminal.
>>>
>>> It will be headed to a good home, assuming that Don (ttyman) is successful
>>> in bidding on it.
>>>
>>> Don Robert House is curator of the North American Data Communications
>>> Museum (NADCOMM) in San Diego. It is co-located with Computer Museum of
>>> America.
>>> NADCOMM takes pride in making as much gear as possible operational.
>>>
>>> http://www.nadcomm.org
>>> http://www.computer-museum.org
>>>
>>> I'm certain that he would be thrilled to talk to anyone with first hand
>>> knowledge of the unit.
>>>
>>> He may be on the road back to Illinois at the moment, so I don't
>>>have a tel.
>>#.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> At 12:18 PM 3/3/2003 -0500 Tom Adams wrote:
>>> >1. Western Electric AT&T Computer DATA Telephone
>>> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2162272214
>>> >
>>> >I have received some information on this item that may or may not be true,
>>if
>> > >it is, this phone may be as rare as the picture phone, so wanted to share
>>the
>> > >additional info with those that may be interested. I received
>>an email from
>>> >this gentleman:
>>> >
>>> > " Hi Tom, I am quite anxious to get in touch with you. I
>>>think I know the
>>> >fellow who "invented" that video terminal that you have on
>>> >e-bay. Whatever you
>>> >do, please keep me informed on what may happen to that unit. As far as I
>>know
>>> >they were never produced commercially. I am in New Jersey, worked at Bell
>>> >Labs, now retired, and my telephone number is XXX-XXX-XXX. If
>>>you will give
>>me
>>> >your phone number I'll be happy to call you. Also best time to call. I'm
>> > >retired so I'm home most of the time. Thanks for any info. John Sheetz"
>>> >
>>> >I called him to discuss the phone with him. He told me it was invented by
>>> >David
>>> >Hagelbarger at Bell Labs and a predecessor of the picture phone?? At any
>>rate
>>> >I did some searching on the internet and this is what I've found
>>>out as to a
>>> >possible Patent, looks very close anyway and I've attached 2
>>>pages as a .doc
>>> >link, more can be found on Patent site.
>>> >http://home.mindspring.com/~leigh.adams1/attdata.doc
>>> >http://home.mindspring.com/~leigh.adams1/attdata2.doc
>>> >
>>>
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>-
>>> >-
>>> >United States Patent 4,291,198
>>> >Anderson , et al. September 22, 1981
>>> >
>>>
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>-
>>> >-
>>> >General-purpose electronic telephone station set
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Abstract
>>> >The power of computer-based services is made available to telephone
>>> >subscribers
>>> >by a telephone station set (10) including a telephone handset
>>>(17) for audio
>>> >transduction, a video output display screen (13) and manual input key
>>> >facilities (16,20,23) coupled for interaction by a data
>>>processing facility
>>> >(43). All of those elements are included in a common station set
>>>housing for
>>> >programmable interaction under control of the station set user. The input
>>key
>>> >facilities include a full ASCII key set, additional buttons (30-32) for
>>> >signaling standard computer service functions, and keys (16) for user
>>> >selection
>>> >of predetermined different text portions of the display screen. Also shown
>>are
>>> >various electrical and mechanical features which facilitate the
>>>combining of
>>> >the functional parts into the common housing and illustrative processes
>>(FIGS.
>>> >8-12) for demonstrating the programmable facility interaction.
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>-
>>> >-
>>> >Inventors: Anderson; Robert V. (Westfield, NJ); Bayer; Douglas L.
>>(Somerset,
>>> >NJ); Hagelbarger; David W. (Morris Township, Morris County, NJ); Kubik;
>>Peter
>>> >S. (South Plainfield, NJ)
>>> >Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated (Murray Hill, NJ)
>>> >Appl. No.: 053099
>>> >Filed: June 28, 1979
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Group web page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/singingwires
>>> >The TCI web site is at http://www.telephonecollectors.org
>>> >TCI Picture Place: http://www.telephonecollectors.org/pictures/
>>> > (Picture posting password: tciphotos )
>>> > No password is required to see the pictures.
>>> >
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Don Robert House
North American Data Communications Museum
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Computer Museum of America
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