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OK, I recently bought a 106A control unit - a small plastic box with a couple of buttons on it. What is the purpose of this unit? It appears to have the same funtions as the one on the speakerphone. Is it a remote?

Any chance of a picture, top and bottom?

Ed, I sent you a photo by personal e-mail because I don't know how to load one up here. Let me know if you didn't receive it.

Bill:

I got the pictures. I've seen those units before but I can't remember what they were used with. I think it was an attempt in improving the 4A in the early-mid 80's. Here they are for someone else to see who may be more familiar:

Thanks. Hope this jogs someone else's memory.

As long as we are talking about obscure parts, has anyone ever heard of a 694 WE speaker? Outwardly, it looks like a 107.

The 694 was used in the Home (or Farm) Interphone system.

Arthur -

Did you ever see a Home Interphone actually installed? I remember we were all fascinated by the specs and drawings but no one I ever met had actually ever seen one, much less installed one.

Sam

My landlady in Washington,D.C. had one and it was really neat. I stayed in her home in 1983 and it still worked fine then. She had fallen on hard times and had it removed to save money. After it was removed the de-installer told her she could have paid a paltry sum to buy it outright but it was too late then. It had a button on the phone (Princess) that she turned one way to activate the speakers in the house and turned it the other way to activate the front door speaker.

Is that the system where the door speakers looked similar to an E1 ringer with louvers in the cover? If so, I removed many of them in DC in the mid 80's.