Not like the Spokesman, but a cheaper, (like Chinese cheap) from the turn of the millenium. I got it at my local Savers as I dropped off some unused 6400 sets late in September.
I did livestream again, but funny thing was since I have local power from the Cisco, it worked without needing the AC power wart.
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In mid September, I got another Starplus II POTS set. This one is without the speed dial keys
Less than a month later, I did a live stream to the Facebook page. Ignore the overzealous auto focusing. Due to some issue with my Avaya 100A module and perhaps some other oddities on the Cisco side, the thing failed. At least for now.
That $1 telephone I mentioned earlier was this guy (or girl)
If you know the history of Western Electric telephones from the late 60s, the Princess was basically marketed to women. This would be the first “chick phone”, way before the days of the RAZR, and other girly phones I have forgotten since the last decade.
The thing is so beaten up. The base is cracked, the bottom surface is breaking off and it doesn’t have the “Princess” logo on the bottom like other sets.
This is the same green colored phone similar to the 500 set that I got around 2008.
I went to the Londonderry Flea Market (formerly known as Londonderry Gardens at the time) and found a vendor who had scrap phones for sale. I was able to get a couple bagfuls for about $25 and another telephone for $1. Not bad.
In this picture, I got a ringer. It looked like it came off a 564, which I did buy a set with it’s own ringer. I wanted to use this set of bell to make my own ringer to alert me outside a call is coming in.
A detailed review on the 4424 and how it only works on non Enterprise Avayas plus the difference in TUI between the Magix and IPO in a future post in 2025.
This picture shows a phone in my own collection. This is an Avaya 4424 Digital Telephone. This phone was originally used in the Merlin Magix series of KSUs. They look like their other digital phones, the difference is the form factor, where the built in microphone is located (on the lower right where there is two holes), and its ring tones. The “menu” keys may appear to use a similar TUI like in the larger systems, but it works differently.
That’s if you have it tied into an IP Office system, and then it works just like the larger PBXs.
Here is another private collection of another office telephone. It’s an AT&T (now Avaya) 7102 Analog telephone.
These were made by AT&T in the mid to late 80s, sports the “R” handset (Merlin style) while having a basic featureset with a 12 digit dial pad and a “Recall” (read: Flash) to use additional features of the PBX or “Call Waiting” as this terminal can – in fact – be used for residential landline services.
In fact, the ringer is much like the very old AT&T 1810 digital answering machine/house phone I had at my family’s house. It doesn’t have the sound of the digital telephones unfortunately.
I bought this on eBay a while back, and here is the gallery
It was made in Korea, kinda odd for phones to be made out of the States at that time. Maybe this was built in the same plant as the other consumer phones that AT&T continued to produce leading to the spinoff to Lucent in 1996. I opened the phone and the guts looked like a cheap Asian produced device.
This phone however, is a shell of a BIS-10 (or a 7410 Plus), take the DESI paper off, and you’ll see the empty spots for those buttons. It was kinda surprising to see, but I guess since there was a membrane cover, it didn’t matter. I’ll post that picture (and redo the picture gallery in a neater workspace) at a later time.