Western Electric 1200

Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
Western Electric 1200
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Western Electric 1200

Year: 1984

Standard: AMPS 800
Factory Code: KS-22938
TAC: n/a
Notes: Sold by AT&T. 3w car phone. Large & heavy transceiver unit. Has system A/B user selection. Made in Japan (Hitachi).

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Cost was $1495 USD from AT&T


You can download an article from 1985 about cellphones illustrated with Western Electric 1200 phone: http://www.mobilecollectors.net/downloads/4005/changing_time_1985_nov_cellphone-



by: oldmobil
2014. Oct 21. 12:23
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by: oldmobil
2014. Oct 21. 12:26
Hello,
Great to have tis phone and the original user's manual too :-)
It would be interesting to see inside this manual, could You scan or photo
some pages and upload here in PDF?
Peter

by: spectreman
2014. Oct 21. 13:39
Yes, sure, I will upload some more pics at least of the manual later.
The manual is dated 1986 (version 2), but I have opened the transceiver up & all of the components in it have a 1984 date code on them, so was made in 1984. I believe it has updated 1986 firmware in it that would have added the system A/B selection function at least. This was not implemented in AMPS phones until 1985.
The phone still works fine with my test set, pretty cool ! These old phones really were made to last !
The design of this phone is very similar to the first AMPS field trial phones from the late 1970's.
Cheers, Chris.

by: spectreman
2014. Oct 21. 13:59
Just found a cool article from a US finance magazine from Nov 1985 that has a nice photo of this very phone.
Have uploaded this. The phone appears to have been made by Hitachi, going by the ESN prefix code.

by: oldmobil
2014. Oct 22. 00:38
I searched for this article, found it and converted to PDF and uploaded to the Library. Interesting to read :o
http://www.mobilecollectors.net/downloa ... cellphone-


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