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Commercial Phones
Circa 1991
Throughout Canada and USA

Credits:
Northern Telecom
Norm Frost

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Northern manufactured phones in their London Ontario plant from 1961 till its closure in 1994. They started with the 500 set, introduced Touch Tone dialling and manufactured a large variety of sets. The picture depicts the first all electronic phones, harsh mechanical ringers are replaced by more pleasing warbles. Sets have become much lighter and cheaper to manufacture. The very first electronic phone was in the 500 family, it retained the same housing and handset but all the parts save for the ringer were electronic.

The first all electronic model was the Harmony the red phone in the picture, it had one model instead of having different models for wall and desk, it carried on the tradition introduced by the Contempra.

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Unity I Phone
Circa 1987
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Credits:
Telecommunications Museum

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Commonwealth Games Phone
Circa 1994
Victoria, BC, Canada

Credits:
Telecommunications Museum

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Northern Telecom branded certain phones for special events they sponsored. The first phone a Unity model has the 1988 Calgary Olympics logo, the white Vista 150 has the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games logo.

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Vista 350 Phone
Circa 1995
Throughout Canada

Credits:
Ken Lyons

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The Vista 350 phone was first produced in Calgary in 1995, production was then moved to Mexico where Northern produced it briefly since the residential phone business was sold to Aastra in December 1999. It has a large interactive screen that provides prompts for the many features it supports. Nortel / Northern Telecom / Northern Electric produced residential phones for 104 years. It is believed they were the last manufacturer to produce residential phones domestically in North America.

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Meridian 9516 Phone
1995
Throughout Canada and USA

Credits:
Ken Lyons

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The Meridian 9516 phone was one of the first Northern phones to have a digital voice recorder in addition to having a call display screen and programmable buttons. It too was part of the last residential phones manufactured by Nortel.

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Meridian 1
Circa 2003
Globally

Credits:
Nortel

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The Meridian 1 is a business communications systems that was introduced as the first digital switch to serve business needs in 1975. It has evolved to meet latest IP communications needs.

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M3904 Digital Phone
Circa 2004
Globally

Credits:
Brian Cann
Nortel

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One of the several digital phones designed to operate with the Meridian 1, it has multi-line capability, a large screen and supports up to 12 lines.

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DMS-10 Switching System
Circa 2000
Globally

Credits:
Nortel