Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Design For Humans Message-ID: Date: 29 Sep 89 14:09:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 420, message 2 of 11 In article gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) writes: > Speaking of the 2500, is it still with us? Does AT&T (or ITT, or GTE, > or Stromberg Carlson (comdial) or whoever) still manufacture a _real_ > 2500 set? [complains about sleazy (new) AT&T set] I have an AT&T phone in front of me that we bought a few months ago for our lab. It has CS2500DMGH and a date code printed on the bottom, so I guess it's a 2500 set :-) Anyway, it's made in Singapore, it's cheap and sleazy, and the keypad stops generating tones if the voltage drops below 5.4 volts. It feels too lightweight for a telephone, although if you open it up you find there are two heavy metal bars riveted to the bottom that seem to have no purpose but to add weight. On the plus side, it has memory, redial, and mute. Peter Desnoyers Apple ATG (408) 974-4469