Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: PhoneMate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This PhoneMate model 960 telephone answering machine was advertised as "SAM" or Smart Answering Machine. The user carried a small remote control and could retrieve messages by calling from any location. A tone emitted by the remote control activated the play-back function on the recorder.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from PhoneMate, thru Shun Yamaura
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0371.04
label: accession number
content: 1989.0371
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0371.04
label: model number
content: 960
objectType: label: Object Name
content: answering machine
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 cm x 25 cm x 38 cm; 5 1/8 in x 9 13/16 in x 14 15/16 in