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Posted by Joseph Singer on August 9, 2008, 11:41 pm
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Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:51:11 -0700 (PDT) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
<<The AE basic telephone set, the model 80, looked very similar to the
Bell model 500, except the dial finger stop was lower on the circle,
and the dial was quieter.
Could anyone describe what the basic AE Touch Tone set looked like?
They marketed it as "Touch Calling" ("Touch Tone" was the Bell System
official name.)>>
AE telephone sets were very similar to the WECO design only slightly
different so they wouldn't infringe on the WECO designs. Like the
similarity between the model 80 for Automatic Electric and the WECO
model 500 the model 80E was similar to the WECO model 2500. Sets for
the same era were "copied" by lots of different manufacturers.
Telephone sets used in the UK the "706" have a 500 feel to them as
well. The Telrad sets used in Israel have the same rounded feel as
the WECO 500.
See:
http://www.dmine.com/phworld/pictures/ae/
for 1975 - 1986
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