{"id":3474,"date":"2018-12-15T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:36:11","slug":"my-collection-northern-companion-conference-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/my-collection-northern-companion-conference-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"My Collection: Northern Companion Conference Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acquired\u00a0in 2016, this analog conferencing set for handsfree, full-duplex calling that predates the Polycom by a decade, was made by Nortel and was marketed in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6170 size-medium_large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion-768x511.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion-600x399.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nortelcompainion.jpeg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This set has not been tested. It came with a 6P8C connector but with anything Nortel back in the day for power injection, required a lot of experience of making Radio Shack like dohickies in the culture of the nerdiness of Northern of that time. Things had to be cheap and complicated. A schematic is available on the web so I am not fully in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in very decent condition since many of the plastic sets in the mid 1980s for Northern was known to be very brittle. Better plastics came along when the Meridian 1 line was marketed near the end of that decade.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/imaginary-seo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3267\" src=\"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/imaginary-seo.png\" alt=\"Hey SEOs! We're seeking non pricky engineers\/professional information services professionals, non technical people, AND girl power! females from 18 to 35 too!\" width=\"120\" height=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquired\u00a0in 2016, this analog conferencing set for handsfree, full-duplex calling that predates the Polycom by a decade, was made by Nortel and was marketed in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[294,301,634,676,680],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mycollection","category-uncategorized","tag-companion","tag-conference-phone","tag-my-collection","tag-nortel","tag-northern-telecom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7220,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/7220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}