[comp.dcom.telecom] Picture Phones at Rochester Institute of Technology

MJK2660@ritvm.bitnet (Mike Koziol) (10/13/89)

Concerning the discussion about picture phones. When I first came here
to the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974 we were just
completing some construction for the National Technical Institute for
the Deaf (NTID). NTID was to be a showplace for visitors and
government types to show what could as far as educating the deaf.

Anyway we had about 20 locations on campus, both offices and public
areas, that had picture phone installed. I didn't spend a lot of time
experimenting with them but they were pretty interesting. They were
removed around '79-'80 as I recall, mainly because of lack of use and
maintenance problems.

As I recall they were manufactured by Stromberg-Carlson but I could be
very wrong about this. The last I heard about them was that they were
stacked up in a storage room somewhere. This was about 5 years ago. I
guess it's time to go a lookin'.