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   LaF0rge (laf0rge@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 04:59:57 JST LaF0rge

   Latest #retronetworking acquisition: One of the first commercially available #ISDN video telephones (this unit built in 1992, but I think the model is available 2-3 years longer). Apparently the "Telekom Bildtel 001" was built around a LOEWE MultiTel TV10 BTX terminal, plus an AEG/OLYMPIA codec unit and a TV camera.

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     bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 04:59:51 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     @Doctor_J_ @LaF0rge By complete incidence I was looking at OLS2002 photos just now, here is Harald :-)

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     Jason Carty (doctor_j_@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 04:59:53 JST Jason Carty

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     • bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

     @LaF0rge @bert_hubert I love how when I was a kid (in the 80s), everyone was striving towards video phone calls as the big frontier to reach in tech, and nowadays video calling is just rote and boring.

     https://youtu.be/8_Yz0TT439Q

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     LaF0rge (laf0rge@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 04:59:54 JST LaF0rge

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     I found something that looks like a marketing picture that shows this ancient video phone in action:

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     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 06:01:41 JST James Morris

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     @LaF0rge This looks so cool.
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     LaF0rge (laf0rge@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 06:01:50 JST LaF0rge

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     starting to put together some more information and images about this device at https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/BildTel_001

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     LaF0rge (laf0rge@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 06:01:51 JST LaF0rge

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     First step is cleaning everything. Somebody spilled some sugary drink over the keyboard, making most keys sticky (in a sense they remain pushed after depressing them briefly)

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     James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 06:04:22 JST James Morris

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     @LaF0rge beautifully engineered. It's a shame it's not economically viable to manufacture most devices at this level of quality now. I'm always blown away when I open up old Tektronix or HP test gear, which was typically also aircraft rated.