Western Electric 50A Conference Telephone Set
1960s Soviet KD-6 desk phone
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Western ElectricWestern ElectricWestern Electric Co., Inc. was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the Bell System was dismantled.Read more on Wikipedia → · Data phones, Office phones, American
About This Phone
This phone used punch cards to encode business information and to communicate with corporate computers. It would have been part of a system purchased by a large business. Each of the alphabetical cards would have stored useful telephone numbers; the other punch cards would have held programs to run on a central computer.
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