RECORD A CALL 675 dual cassette answering machine of '80s.

An old Answering machine I got today at a flea market for $2.50. Works great, but audio record quality isn't to great..

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[lavictoriada]

My father is the designer that designed the record-a-call answering machines! We had the same one at my house. That's why I found this video... I just googled record-a-call to see what I found... !

[CassetteMaster]

W-O-W!

[Trance88]

Not too bad of an answering machine. So does it record phone conversations too?

[CassetteMaster]

I can record conversations.

[1hit1ders]

@lavictoriada I used to fix the R-A-C model 90A when I worked at Teledyne Service Company in Commerce, CA near LA. That was a workhorse unit, 95% of the failures were bad opto-isolators (buffers the phone line from the unit electronics). They would fail and the unit wouldn't answer an incoming call. Had lots of easy repairs on them, not much else went wrong. Great units, owned one myself back when few people had answering machines. Many were bewildered and hang up, upon hearing it!

[sainzgoff]

My first job right out of high school was for Record-a-Call. That machine went for about 250.00 I worked in the credit and collections department. The company was located in Paramount California...Think this was about 3 generation machine. The first ones weighed about 20lbs.

[themaritimeman]

Pretty neat answering machine! I have an AT&T model 1306 from I believe 1994. It uses a single Microcassette to hold both the announcement and the messages. It uses a series of beeps recorded on the cassette (that the user can't hear unless the tape is played in a different machine) to tell it where the announcement and messages start and stop, and the controlling of the cassette is completely electronic - pretty interesting.

[dennytoby]

RECORD A CALL was THE answering machine..very expensive..except in their last years of operation (the truth is that they began making trashy machines)...the 675,690,690/2 ,and the 3100,were the best models.

I had a 690 for years. They were very good. I found one on "ebay" years ago. I hated to "give it up,when the last one "died".

I ALWAYS HAD A "RECORD A CALL".

[exodia333]

Hey rick thats a pretty intresting video especially the personal message I feel bad for the girl but u could do a lot with that recording maybe make it sound like alvin and the chipmunks or the devil for that matter :D

[tribalmasters]

You can play with it as if it was on the phone system with a PBX! The PBX provides all the exciting things you need to emulate a telephone line! As long as it supports internal calls and take standard telephones, it'll work. I got mine for £11 from China on eBay, problem may be (on mine at least) that older kit may not be able to detect such things as the dial tone or the ringing signal as they are different, but you could always get a line simulator which can do that stuff!

[shitstinx]

btw - i used to have a panasonic dual cassette answering machine that was so old, it had circular knobs you would turn, instead of buttons. like an idiot, i threw it away (years ago) and now i cant even find it on ebay. but i saved and still have the little remote to it, that you would hold up to the phone and beep to retrieve msgs from afar.

its funny the only time u see them anymore (after the inception of voicemail) is in movies or tv where the plot requires people 2 hear a msg outloud.

[shitstinx]

can it connect to a cell phone directly somehow, so that i can record calls? the only way i know to record currently is to call an answering machine using 3way calling, then calling whoever i want to record, and then having both of them present on the line at the same time. but is there a way to wire the machine to a cell phone so that without 3way calling (which i dont hav) i can record a call?