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Telephone Talk => Flea Market/Yard Sale/Antique Store/Thrift Store Finds => Topic started by: ..... on May 02, 2018, 08:43:40 PM

Title: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 02, 2018, 08:43:40 PM
Picked up a few phones this week.

2 NT Displayphones.
3 Contempra's
1 Green 1966 NE 500 Model MF – 699 with button on the handset and no bells or dial face.

I have never seen this type before and asked a couple of other members about it. They have never heard of this model either.
I'll start another thread about this phone later.

1 Ericopon phone with box and 3 spare bodies.
1 Boxed cocoa brown Contempra
1 NE 233H 3 slot payphone.

My wife said I over spent this months allowance. I told her, I used April's so I'm good. :)
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: Pourme on May 02, 2018, 09:23:41 PM
Nice catch.....Good phones!

I think I speak for most men when I say ....Your garage is just too clean and organized.....you're making us all look bad. ;)
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: Key2871 on May 02, 2018, 09:30:18 PM
Wow, you've been busy. Some nice phones you have there.
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 02, 2018, 09:56:52 PM
Quote from: Pourme on May 02, 2018, 09:23:41 PM
Nice catch.....Good phones!

I think I speak for most men when I say ....Your garage is just too clean and organized.....you're making us all look bad. ;)

If I turn the camera around you would see a mess. It's not so organized. :)

Update: I turned the camera around.
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: FABphones on May 03, 2018, 03:21:51 AM
I'm liking the payphone (and the tidy garage!).
:)
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: monophone_lover on May 03, 2018, 08:37:03 AM
Nice Job...... very nice..
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: RB on May 03, 2018, 11:53:05 AM
Nice.
Can you get the two video phones to talk to each other?
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 03, 2018, 12:18:08 PM
Quote from: RB on May 03, 2018, 11:53:05 AM
Nice.
Can you get the two video phones to talk to each other?

I couldn't tell you. I only bought these for the power supply. I have a brand new one in the original box, but no power supply.

So now I have 3 of them and only one power supply.
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: RB on May 03, 2018, 12:40:14 PM
Bummer! what are they rated at?
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 03, 2018, 01:04:39 PM
Quote from: RB on May 03, 2018, 12:40:14 PM
Bummer! what are they rated at?

Not sure, I'll check later and take some pictures of the power supply.
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 04, 2018, 10:36:22 AM
Quote from: RB on May 03, 2018, 12:40:14 PM
Bummer! what are they rated at?

Here you go.
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: Pourme on May 05, 2018, 08:38:53 PM
Quote from: Duffy on May 02, 2018, 09:56:52 PM
If I turn the camera around you would see a mess. It's not so organized. :)

Update: I turned the camera around.

Much better, I feel better now!

Thanks!
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: AE_Collector on May 06, 2018, 01:03:34 AM
Quote from: RB on May 03, 2018, 11:53:05 AM
Nice.
Can you get the two video phones to talk to each other?

They are actually data phones not video phones. They are a dumb terminal as far as I know. I think you could build speed call lists on them for dialing as well. They might be a two line phone, or at least some of them might be.

Duffy, you mean you have three phones and only two power supplies,....not one power supply.

Terry
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: ..... on May 06, 2018, 06:59:42 AM
Quote from: AE_Collector on May 06, 2018, 01:03:34 AM

Duffy, you mean you have three phones and only two power supplies,....not one power supply.

Terry

Nope, one power supply Terry, The other one is burnt out. I guess should have said that in the beginning.  ::)
My Display phone is a NT6K10AR and the other 2 are NT6K600AR. The dial pads are different.
These Display phones were made right here in Belleville, Ontario. 


Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: AE_Collector on May 06, 2018, 10:35:10 AM
Now there is another piece of history that I had forgotten all about! Envelopes, brochures and catalogs arriving in the mail for weeks after sending off the postage paid card!
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: compubit on May 06, 2018, 10:48:42 AM
That address was about 3 miles from where I lived during high school.  I passed though that area every day going to school...

Side note: that address is actually in Farmers Branch, TX - but lots of businesses on the edge of Dallas used "Dallas" as the city mailing address, especially in national advertising...

Jim
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: AE_Collector on May 06, 2018, 11:00:30 AM
Is Beltwood a place? Sounds funny saying Beltwood Parkway ... Beltwood sounds so close to Beltway which I think is frequently used to name a highway circling an area.

But then again, I am still trying to figure out why we Park on the Driveway and Drive on the Parkway....

Terry
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: FABphones on May 06, 2018, 11:22:03 AM
We drive over Spaghetti Junction, and to Lands End...
;)
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: skyrider on May 06, 2018, 03:12:10 PM
Spaghetti Junction, and Lands End? Could be Cornwall, UK or Atlanta, GA.


Bill
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: oldphon on June 15, 2018, 01:31:56 AM
I have several of these DisplayPhones as well, and power supplies are an issue.  It appears the internals may be a commercial part, so they might be replaceable if you can find old stock, otherwise we need to try and find something with equivalent outputs.

Btw, I vote for Lands End, Cornwall, as my dad grew up there!

Jeremy
Title: Re: A few phones this week.
Post by: RB on June 15, 2018, 09:44:44 AM
Hi Oldphon...
The street is Beltline...
And those power supplies could not be any more popular, or standard.
It is still exactly the same as it was back in the 80's.
every terminal, and every PC still use them today.
You will not have trouble finding one.
The outputs are very common.
just look around for a donor, or order one online.
As long as the 5volt run is sufficient, do not worry about the + and - 12, they are for I/O only. and will be fine.