"Hey boss, how big do you want the On/Off switch?" "Yes"

"Well that answers that." Generally with phones, yes.

That ringer sounds like a synthesizer that would be used in an old horror movie.

By the description, it is a 2000 hertz triangle wave amplitude modulated by a 12 hz triangle wave (or both could be square). Listening to the sound, I think the latter oscillator is running slow, probably due to bad capacitors. Sounds like 2-3 Hz. Set up a simple analolg synth with these frequencies and test for yourself. So no, not supposed to sound like that

Holy crap I feel like Charlie Townsend is about to give me a very important mission involving pseudo-karate moves and skimpy clothing

the frequent uploads been the highlight of the last week for me. thanks man :)

Rotary dial speaker phone is something quite special

I know my comment is irrelevant but I want to say it's so awesome that you and your brother are friends and do things together. Please never take that for granted.

All the telelphone sounds and the audio quality that isn't crystal clear make me feel good. Love this stuff

"Hello Angels"

The board is on the line for this meeting.

The year I was born. Hope it has less arthritis than I do!!!. Keep up the good work.

Should see if can replace the bulb. Would be cool to see it light up!

very Techmoan.

Very smart and in lovely condition, I love the chunky rocker switch. Must have been an expensive device when new!

If you love that ringer, you'd probably love the tone ringer in the GPO TrimPhone, they're a proper little chirp when they ring, and most had a radioactive dial too with a tritium tube inside the dial to make it glow in the dark... :D

That massive On/Off button just oozes cool. Great video, thanks for sharing 😁

I haven't heard a dial tone in forever 😅 instantly took me back

There is something so satisfying about rotary phones. My granny refused to upgrade, so that was her house phone when I was young! Trying to stand at the little phone shelf for an hours long conversation or dragging over a kitchen chair was the Hard Times 😂😂😂😂 That phone weighed like 20lbs all by itself. My uncle ended up with it, but man I wish I could clone it.

That 60's era electronic ringer sounds something I would have heard in the background of an Episode of the Twilight Zone to heighten the sense of Tension

I would be guessing even the electronic components of the ringer have degraded with age, a bit of a gift it works at all. Techmoan must be drooling over this one!

Fascinating stuff! Reminds me of some of the stuff in the late 70's I would see at my dad's office. This video made me remember the leather executive phone at the VCF show. I almost wanted to make the guy an offer!

If you did'nt hear the first ring, by the time it rang again the caller would think you were out and hang up. LOL

1961, the year I was born.

I like the technical journal, with all the circuit diagrams. Back in the 80's, I had a couple stereos from the 70's that had circuit diagrams for the whole stereo, printed on a sheet and glued to the inside of the back cover. (Those were the days!)

I've never seen a larger rocker switch on a consumer electronics device.

Dang, now that's an extra big-ass power switch! As wide as the receiver itself and almost the same size as the dial.

This is seriously cool. I was 6 at that time/date so don't remember ever seeing one like this.

I'm in love with the HUGE power switch! MORE electronics need power switches like that!

I have the exact same phone in beige. The ringer on mine sounds very similar to yours.

Super cool. I always wanted a speakerphone when I grew up. The ones in Mad Men were the Western Electric variety (107a)

What a lovely piece of early tech! Love it, thank you for sharing! ☎️☺️

Show us more phones XD these are so strangely enjoyable and satisfying

thanks for bringing the blerbs back!

That's the creepiest ringtone I ever heard in my life.

It'd be nice to restore something like this a little. Reference some of the old photos print off a new sticker for the dial, change the antislip mat on the base, smooth out the scuffs on the plastic, get the blinker working again. It'd look great in a home office.

Commodore branded Northern Telecom 500-style phone! Always a good choice.

Wow, that’s old. Good thing it works!

that ringer sounds similar to the ringer used in that bell systems video "a voice for the farm" it'd come through the loud speakers setup around the farm, or so it claimed.

That ringer is very pleasant, like you could ignore it for minutes without it getting on your nerves.

(3:30) Yeah, I'm pretty sure CPS stands for Cycles Per Second. I just looked up Hertz and the Hz label didn't come into use until 1960, the year before this phone came out. Interesting! 😎☮️

Rotary Phones from the 1960s you got from the phone company was tough as nails . I was 10 years old I dropped them a lot and it didn't hurt it. I watch abandoned house videos and see these built-in vacuum tube intercoms it's fascinating. I wouldn't mind getting a older set and recondition it. Put all new capacitors in them.

Cool! Thanks for making a video about it.

reminds me of the OG Get Smart for some reason.

Looks like something I've seen on Columbo reruns. 😂 Great device!

That was awesome. Keep the telephone vids coming! If you get a standard POTS line installed at your house for this phone review side hustle, they still support pulse dialing so you can test the dial out on these old beauties.

I love a good monday morning blerb!

Ring sound evokes sci-fi movie sound effects of the 50s and 60s, that futuristic tone may be what they were going for.

I used to have a Reel to Reel answering machine that would have gone well with this telephone made in 1969. I'm sad I ever lost it.

Hi LGR This is a perfect phone if a hypnotize you hands free.

That ringtone sounds like something out of a 1960s episode of Doctor Who. I like it.

LOL so one Christmas White Elephant gift exchange at work, I ended up with a Western Electric rotary phone with 6 plastic buttons (for multiple lines?) on the bottom and what looked like a thicc funky Parallel or SCSI-like cord connected to it. I had no idea what to do with it, so I put in blinky amber and one red LED in those buttons and made it a conversation piece. I still have it on display in a bookshelf at work LOL

You need to try a conversation with it, particularly with a traditional analog phone. They're very limited and hard to use. DSP echo cancellation didn't exist, so it was fundamentally half-duplex, when one side speaks, the level of speaker audio is cut down severely (what we now call audio ducking). That often means double-talking, especially when the other side has a similar speakerphone. Feedback could happen when there was significant latency: long distance lines, particularly back then when it was all analog, had background hiss, and there were only primitive echo cancellers. The separate speaker box was needed to reduce pickup of the mic from the speaker to try to mitigate some of that. Modern devices and codecs have echo cancellers, so it works a lot better today than it did in 1961.

Great video. I was going to comment that this looks like something out of Mad Men. I do think it’s interesting that the speaker and mic seem to be separated like they are.

LGR Blerbs is so back!

Think I've seen this in some movie(s). It looks very familiar...

CPS stands for cycles per second which, as Clint correctly mentioned, is another way of saying Hertz.

Someone stole this from the set of Mad Men, I love it :) EDIT: Goddamnit Clint made that exact joke 10 seconds after I typed it. You magnificent bastard!

I couldn't imagine the idea of a speaker phone was that revolutionary. A normal phone has a microphone and a speaker, so why not bigger? I would think the hardest part would be trying to prevent feedback. If that was difficult I would imagine since early models would be push-to-talk.

Wish something like that would show up in my neck of the world.

If we go back to the rotary phones you are all set 😊

Looks like something Dr Evil would have on his desk, awesome.

7:16 "Good morning, Angels."

Neat rotary phone although I can do without that eerie ringtone.

The ringer might be a bit off. The text said it should be a 2 kHz tone (which is a slightly flat C7), but it's closer to 1.5 kHz (~G6). Maybe component values have drifted? Maybe the input voltage affects the pitch? Or maybe the 12 Hz modulation mentioned somehow interacts with the tone and lowers its pitch? Whatever the case, the descrepency is interesting.

I like it. Gotta find that ring tone for my phone

Cool Phone I have like half dozen old phones !

I believe standard POTS voltage is 24V, and the ring voltage is somewhere in the 90V range. That's what you would need to power it.

That Xlink gateway can push 4 ren which is 4 of the old mechanical ringer phones I've been using one for years to ring 3 of at the same time have never had a problem

That sounds WAY better than I expected. Get yourself 3 angels & start calling yourself Bosley.

LGR's Angels

That bluetooth device is great. I should get one. 👍

I've seen/known about rotarty soeakerphones being a thing back into the 60s, just because of movies. You've seen old key exchange PBX units on like, secretary desks and such, bit ive never seen one this small or that was only a single line.

Awesome speakerphone! Though I always cringe a bit as a phone collector when I see Bell logos slapped onto non-bell phones like that dial sticker the phone itself is excellent. I had no idea that the AE 880 used a tone ringer

My dogs started barking and crying at 6:05 😂

I think I might be wrong, but some old movies like Bond or some others might have had something like that but even back when I saw them that was like unrealistic, everyone would have thought it was some future technology. Very interesting.

I've seen speakerphones in old movies, probably from that far back or more, but I've never seen one that old in person! I guess 'cause I'm not an executive... As a child of the 80's and 90's, though, that bell ringer still -- much to my own surprise -- makes me feel the urge to answer the phone... that I had disconnected years ago because the landline had become all spam calls. Alas. That weird, chirping "ringer", though... that was creepy. What WAS that supposed to sound like when new? 😲

That was fun.

Greetings!!!

The hertz wasn't really estabilished until the mid 1960s or later; before that it was just called cycles per second.

How Cool

Well. It sounds like fun

Clint on the xlink you can change a setting to drive older telephones... I have one of these also

I just call To say I ❤ this

CPS, or "Cycles Per Second" is an older term that predates Hertz. So that's how you know you have old tech :)

Either you're doing OT or you're just gifting us with 3 blerbs in a weekend. As long as you don't burnout, I'm all for it.

Greetings, my friend, I've got something neat, A thrift store treasure, a real cool treat. An electric speakerphone, model 880, so grand, From 1961, a piece of the past in my hand. I love collecting phones, but not the digital kind, Those from the '90s and '80s, I leave them behind. But this one from the '60s, at such a good price, Forty-nine bucks, couldn't think twice. My brother and I, on a thrifting quest, He wanted a cassette deck, you know the best. While he found his treasure, I stumbled on mine, This speakerphone hidden, behind others in line. A speaker and mic, with a curious look, Had to take it home, like bait on a hook. Saw it online, valued more than I paid, It had an RJ11, so my devices it played. It works just fine, I had to share, This old phone, beyond compare. Collecting old phones is a hobby of mine, And this one, my friend, is quite divine. An electric ringer, not metal or bell, Sounds like a cricket, oh, isn't that swell? From '61, this marvel, ahead of its time, No more simple rotaries, now that's sublime. A loudspeaker phone, from days of yore, No hands needed, a tech we adore. With its unique housing, controls so neat, For group calls, or just a one-man feat. Plugged it in, the ringer sang, A synthetic sound, like a cricket’s twang. No physical bell, just an oscillator’s tune, Amplified sound, fills the room. North Carolina roots, it seems to say, Used till '94, in its own special way. Handset attached, but often unused, Just press a button, the mic is enthused. Needs a clean, a sticker replaced, But the mechanism’s fine, no detail erased. Testing it out, with Bluetooth gear, Not ideal, but it works, never fear. Speakerphone function, loud and clear, Blinking light’s supposed to be here. Talking through the mic, a voice from the past, This old phone’s charm, forever will last. Imagine Mad Men, in an office grand, This phone on a desk, perfectly planned. An executive tool, for calls so grand, Now a relic, in my hand. Maybe common, maybe rare, Either way, a story to share. If you know more, or have tales to tell, Let me know, would be swell. This nifty find, from a thrift store shelf, Brings history alive, all by itself. So thanks for watching, my little show, About this old phone, with a special glow.

Nice, use it.

This is something Techmoan would do. He could help you.

The ring sounds like Finfin! 🐦🐬

Hello Charlie! 😁🪩

What's scary, is that someone using this phone from the 60's in the 90's is pretty much the same as someone using a home phone from the 90's now. 😬

Should have called the Rick roll number!

Remember speed dial on a rotary phone was just forcing it as fast as you could.

Awesome! I found one of those classic mountable phones with the LOOOONG cable we all played with as kids. I wondered if there were a way to user it in modern times, and I think that bluetooth device might work? Thanks!

LGR is spoiling us

I didn't think anything sold for 49 bucks in thrift stores.

YES LGR is back blerbin'

Chacharas con el Clint ❤

this cool, i wonder if cant build one thats similar to this.