Telephone Answering Machines

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Simon Moorhead

Keywords

History of Australian Telecommunications, Telephone Answering Machines, Telecommunication Journal of Australia

Abstract

The Journal revisits an historic paper from 1959, which details the first practical implementations of an automatic telephone answering machine for subscribers in Australia. Three different models are described that essentially provide the same functionality.

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