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Showing posts with label British Telecom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Telecom. Show all posts
16 March 2012

British Telecom Arrives...

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In 1980, Post Office Telecommunications became British Telecom and would become a totally separate public corporation on 1 October 1981. A p...
18 March 2010

The 1980s: BT Phones For Sale, Plug And Socket Home Phones And Card Phones Arrive...

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A Rhapsody table telephone in tan leather from BT, released in 1981. Why? I dunno. In 1981, BT began to sell telephones for the first time. ...
08 November 2009

1981/1982: Buy A Trimphone PLEASE - We'll Give You Funky Two-Tone Colours, We'll Call Them Phoenixphones... We'll Knock £15 Off.... We'll Do ANYTHING

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From the Daily Mail , April 15, 1981. British Telecom arrived in 1980 and in 1981 began selling phones for the very first time. Before tha...
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29 March 2009

1987: "You Got An Ology?" Beattie Makes Her BT Debut...

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Having been told by her grandson Anthony that he has failed most of his exams - only passing pottery and sociology, Beattie cries: "He ...
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28 May 2005

1987 - Nokia Cityman, "You Got An Ology?", House Music, Respectable, All Night TV, It's A Sin, The Great Gale, Black Monday, "Nessie, Are You There?"

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1987 saw the yuppies reaching the height of happiness. It seemed to be the year of yuppiedom. There was a feeling in the air that mankind ha...
27 May 2005

Swatch Phones and Others...

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This is one of my favourite things - a Swatch phone, which has been described as "an icon of 80s design". Note the combination of...