Phone Mate 400 Answering Machine (1971) Microsoft limited software compatibility

limited software compatibility

hitting shelves just before the Philips compact cassette took over the world

marking it as one of the first 1% of TRS-80s ever produced

Spacely on The Jetsons (1963-1966)

capable of displaying both high-quality business text and gaming graphics on the exact same internal screen

Phone Mate 400 Answering Machine (1971) Microsoft limited software compatibilityPhone Mate 400 First Commercially Successful Residential Answering Machine The PhoneMate Model 400, introduced in 1971, was the first commercially successful answering machine designed specifically for the average home. Enclosed in a heavy, wood paneled cabinet that weighed a substantial 10 pounds, it bypassed standard cassettes in favor of a miniature reel to reel tape system that could hold up to 20 incoming messages. Because it debuted before