Northern Telecom Smart Terminal
date: label: date made
content: ca 1990
name: label: maker
content: Nortel
label: maker
content: Nortel Networks Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: This portable device has a tan case with monitor and keyboard. According to the instructions received with it, it is a "Multistandard Videotex terminal, manufactured by by Northern Telecom. " A "versatile, easy-to-use, interactive video-display terminal" it connected users via a telephone line "to a broad range of electronic services and information sources, from shopping and banking to airline schedules, theatre listings, and stock market information." The back of the terminal includes a brightness control knob, a slot for a telephone jack, a slot for a wall telephone jack, a receptacle for a power cord,and a power switch. This system resembles the AlexTel terminal developed by Northern Telecom from 1988 to 1990 and then rented to customers until 1994.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: https://oldphoneworks.com/products/alextel-terminal-videotex
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jon Eklund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0132.16
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0132.16
label: accession number
content: 2006.0132
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Terminal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 18 in; 24.13 cm x 27.305 cm x 45.72 cm