{"id":2449,"date":"2016-12-20T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T22:59:41","slug":"ugliest-operator-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/ugliest-operator-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugliest Operator Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we are going into the spirit of the Christmas season, I thought to spoof &#8220;Ugly Christmas Sweaters&#8221; to do a similar thing to operator consoles.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s will be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2446 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-1024x768.png\" alt=\"img_1692\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_1692.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a Mitel operator console. Before they were seriously electronic, the set was bulky, I believe metallic or heavy duty and the Busy Lamp Field would literally mean a field of lamps with no button access.<\/p>\n<p>They stopped making this around the late 1980s, but wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see these installed in SX 50, SX 200 or SX 200 Superswitches.<\/p>\n<p>PICTURE IS NOT MY OWN. It was snatched by an eBay listing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are going into the spirit of the Christmas season, I thought to spoof &#8220;Ugly Christmas Sweaters&#8221; to do a similar thing to operator consoles. Today&#8217;s will be\u00a0 This is a Mitel operator console. Before they were seriously electronic,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/ugliest-operator-consoles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[615,706,964],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mitel","tag-operator-console","tag-ugly-operator-consoles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}