Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1989
name: label: maker
content: PhoneMate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: PhoneMate’s model 5000 answering machine sold for about $120 in the late 1980s. In order to save space many answering machine makers adopted a tape cartridge that was much smaller than the standard audio cassette. The model 5000 took this miniaturization one step further by reducing the size of entire machine. One advertisement shows the unit being held in a man’s hand.
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: 1989.0371.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0371
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0371.01
label: model number
content: 5000
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: 5 cm x 15 cm x 10 cm; 1 15/16 in x 5 7/8 in x 3 15/16 in