No home should be without one of these amazing devices!

[HELLO CENTRAL]

This has to be one of the granddaddies of all home/business answering machines!  

Seen here:

The Rotarian - Nov 1971 - Google Books Result
56 pages - Magazine
You need a better way to get your telephone / You need a RECORD-O-FONE (automatic ... And with our exclusive Tele-Key® remote call back signal device, ...[this is what I found today]

http://tinyurl.com/y8osn69

I don't have the console, so if anyone is in need of the Tele - Key I'd gladly send it to them!

Walt S

[McHeath]

I used to watch The Rockford Files in the 1970's as a kid.  That Jim Rockford has touchtone phones and an answering machine.  Man that was living!  I was gonna have me an answering machine when I grew up, yes sir.

Of course now I'm often tempted to throw the answering machine away. 

[Steve]

My first answering machine was an old record a phone in a wood grain finish. back in the early 80's

It had the old cassette tape for recording . good times

[dsk]

You may make your own:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/14/build-your-own-answering-machine/
dsk

[HELLO CENTRAL]

   Playing, TIME IN A BOTTLE, by Jim Croce!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDt2t0oO7g

[AET]

I still watch and love the Rockford Files.  I was always bummed that he had touch tones though.  I tried awhile back to buy a reel-to reel answering machine that came with a pink 500 on eBay some time back.  I thought that would have been a neat toy to have.