Telephone Answering Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1989
name: label: maker
content: PhoneMate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This PhoneMate model 6950 illustrates answering machine technology in the midst of radical change. From the earliest designs in the 1900s, answering machines used magnetic recording technology, recording on either wire or coated tape. Most machines of the 1960s and 1970s used two tapes, one for the outgoing message and one to record the incoming message. Advances in digital memory design during the 1980s led the model 6950's designers to eliminate the outgoing message tape by using digital memory instead. The incoming message was still recorded on a standard tape cassette. The suggested retail price was $179.98.
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: 1989.0371.02
label: accession number
content: 1989.0371
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0371.02
label: model number
content: 6950
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: 7 cm x 19 cm x 22 cm; 2 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 8 11/16 in