Answering Machine

Wait for a couple minutes for the tape on your answering machine to rewind before listening to your messages. If you're standing there for a while, you got mad messages.

1980s tech brought personal computing and mobile phones to the masses, even if gadgets were bulky and slow by today's standards.

VTech AM18447 Main Console 4-Line Expandable Small Business Office Phone System with Answering Machine, Intercom, Auto Attendant & Music on Hold , Black

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I think it's worth a look back in the rearview mirror, back into the 1980s and earlier, and remind ourselves how communication took place in those paleozoic pre-digital days...

Phone designed by Henry Dreyfuss The dial on this telephone was based on the dial number plate used on public payphones. the letters and numbers were placed outside the finger wheel. With the new placement, dragging fingers and pencils would no longer deface the characters. The overall size of the dial was also extended from the existing 3 inch dial to four and one quarter inches. Also, the user could adjust the loudness of the bell by making adjustments on the bottom of the phone. This…

You parents probably loved shag carpet, floral sofas, and their answering machines, but those are rarely seen in homes today. Take a look back at some of the most popular decorating trends from your childhood.

This is an ad from 1954 for Bell Telephone System. The text reads: “Is it for ME?” You kind of hope it is – for good news and good times often come your way by telephone. Maybe it…

About this item LINK2CELL - A cordless phone system that operates together with your cell phone. Simply charge your cell phone through the USB port on the cordless phone base unit and sync via Bluetooth TEXT MESSAGE (SMS) ALERT - Notifies you of a text message received on your cell phone via an alert on your cordless handset when your cell phone is synced to the cordless phone base unit. Frequency Range - 1.92 GHz - 1.93 GHz ADVANCED DUAL ANSWERING MACHINE - When a caller records a message…

Learn about the history of answering machines, from the first practical apparatus for magnetic sound recording and reproduction beginning in 1898.