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AT&T Comkey? #600289 04/28/16 08:37 AM
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John Osvatic Member Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 250 Wisconsin	I apologize for reposting this but I finally got pictures of the AT&T Comkey? sets that I am looking for. The primary set has 1050 stamped on the face plate along with the AT&T logo. The secondary sets have 1020 stamped on the face plate along with the AT&T logo. I know its not the old Comkey system. I think its more like late 80's early 90's early electronic type. I can send pictures upon request. I am looking for one or two secondary sets. Thank You Forty six years and still fascinated with Telecommunications!

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Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600290 04/28/16 09:46 AM
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dexman Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,173 Likes: 8 Arlington, Massachusetts	Upload the pictures to the Photos forum and add the images here in this topic. I Love FEATURE 00

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600330 04/29/16 04:48 PM
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 17,725 Likes: 18 Western Nebraska justbill Member
justbill Member Joined: May 2002 Posts: 17,725 Likes: 18 Western Nebraska	Retired phone dude

Re: AT&T Comkey? justbill #600332 04/29/16 04:53 PM
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Silversam Moderator-1A2, Cabling Joined: May 2007 Posts: 5,058 Likes: 5 NYC	I'm not a Comkey expert, by any stretch of the imagination, but those don't look like any Comkey sets I ever saw. Sam "Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600335 04/29/16 05:04 PM
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justbill Member Joined: May 2002 Posts: 17,725 Likes: 18 Western Nebraska	This was posted by Carl Navarro in the photo's forum, I couldn't figure out how to move it so just copied: Quote Oh, I feel the Spirit :-) https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=att+spirit+phone+system OMG. I see they actually made black! Most of the ones I've see are that funky shade of smoked ivory (cigarette smoked...) Carl If the Spirit moves you, PM me before you do any purchasing. The Spirit is in my list of warehouse reduction/elimination items. EDIT: Upon further review, I see that this is built on a Spirit frame, but it has a display and less buttons than the 24-button set. I can't seem to find a single reference to 1050 or that AT&T ever made it :-) Maybe it was specific to certain telcos or a one-off experiment that failed? Retired phone dude

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600340 04/29/16 09:17 PM
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dexman Spam Hunter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,173 Likes: 8 Arlington, Massachusetts	Those do look like Spirit phones (except for the presence of the LCDs). I Love FEATURE 00

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600344 04/30/16 10:39 AM
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EV607797 Moderator-Vertical, Vodavi, 1A2, Outside Wire Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,382 Likes: 13 Fayetteville, NC	I recall that system referred to as 'Baby Merlin'. Ed Vaughn, MBSWWYPBX

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600345 04/30/16 12:07 PM
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jeffmoss26 Member Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 9,426 Likes: 1 Beachwood	The drugstore I worked at in HS had a Spirit system. Anytime the power went out it would default to pulse dialing. The hardware store in the same shopping center had a Merlin 820 with BIS-10 sets. I can still hear that electronic ring. Jeff Moss Moss Communications Computer Repair-Networking-Cabling MBSWWYPBX, JGAE

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600349 04/30/16 08:06 PM
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hbiss Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 12,347 Likes: 4 New York	Not Comkey that's for sure. Not Spirit either. There was an AT&T system that was neither Merlin or Spirit but around the same time period. I only came across the abandoned KSU once. Could those be the phones for that system? -Hal CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Some comments made by me are known to the State of California to cause irreversible brain damage and serious mental disorders leading to confinement.

Re: AT&T Comkey? John Osvatic #600350 05/01/16 05:55 AM
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John Osvatic Member Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 250 Wisconsin	Thank You to all of you for responding to my inquiry. I knew it wasn't the traditional Comkey but that's the only place I thought my inquiry would fit, hence the ? after Comkey. I know these came out post AT&T Divestiture while I worked at US WEST. The Spirit, if this is what these are, was one of AT&T attempts to enter the small customer market back then. US WEST created a deregulated side and also entered this market by reselling small systems. These systems were self contained with the, in this case the 1050, as the Primary set with all the "key" control features on board. Forty six years and still fascinated with Telecommunications!