Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1998
name: label: maker
content: Motorola Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In the late 1990s Motorola introduced this Pocketalk digital answering machine. Similar to a pager in construction, the Pocketalk allowed the user to hear an incoming phone message almost anywhere. Motorola designed the unit to make use of a special transmission network to which the user paid a monthly subscription. The incoming call would be recorded at a message center, digitized and sent to the transmitter nearest the Pocketalk’s location. While the network did not have complete coverage, most metropolitan areas could receive the signals. By 2000, advances in cellular telephones made the Pocketalk obsolete.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Daniel Henderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0095.074
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0095.074
label: accession number
content: 2003.0095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telephone answering machine
label: Object Name
content: recording device
label: Object Name
content: answering machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.1 cm x 6.5 cm x 2.3 cm; 3 9/16 in x 2 9/16 in x 7/8 in