A smart phone from 1984 - The STC Executel

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  • 1984's smartest phone - The STC 3910 Executel. A desktop information device that looks straight out of Blade Runner. Futuristic in concept, yet very much a product of its time.
    Binary Dinosaurs pages on the STC Executel
    www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Muse...
    www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Muse...
    UPDATE
    IT TURNS OUT MY PHONE WAS ONCE THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY I RANG AT THE END OF THE VIDEO (H&S)
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  • @Techmoan
    @Techmoan  4 года назад +4840

    *M Y S T E R Y S O L V E D* - *THIS PHONE WAS PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY H&S (The company who answered my call)* *It is an executive recruitment consultancy.*
    *This message is pinned and in bold to make it as visible as possible*

    • @JacGoudsmit
      @JacGoudsmit 4 года назад +150

      How did you find out?

    • @Techmoan
      @Techmoan  4 года назад +798

      Old phone directories showed the numbers as belonging to them. The company still has offices in all those locations and has been around sixty years. I think the problems with the numbers I rang were just down to changes over the last 26 years - e.g prefixes of some numbers or consolidating to a central exchange.

    • @JacGoudsmit
      @JacGoudsmit 4 года назад +249

      @@Techmoan Ah, right. Of course. Like almost all phone numbers in the Netherlands changed in 1995 because of a giant reorganization to make more space for phone numbers and comply with new international standards.

    • @felixdietzCGN
      @felixdietzCGN 4 года назад +94

      Not pinned any more - i think it gets unpinned if you edit the comment

    • @TheRanblingjohnny
      @TheRanblingjohnny 4 года назад +184

      @@Techmoan it's a minor miracle that at least one of these numbers worked.

  • @mcolville
    @mcolville 3 года назад +270

    "New York, London, Paris, Munich." Maybe it has something to do with pop music?
    I love this channel so much!

  • @JonWallis123
    @JonWallis123 4 года назад +538

    Gordon McBeath (listed in the calendar at @10:01) was the Personnel Director at ASDA until 1994. Prior to that he was the Personnel and Administrative Director for... drumroll... STC Telecommunications.

    • @frankcooke1692
      @frankcooke1692 4 года назад +33

      Most of those people are probably dead now. We're looking at dead people.

    • @theguywhofoundwaldoo7939
      @theguywhofoundwaldoo7939 3 года назад +5

      @@frankcooke1692 good

    • @petros_adamopoulos
      @petros_adamopoulos 3 года назад +93

      @@frankcooke1692 History books are full of those. Don't be spooked.

    • @tsvetangeorgiev
      @tsvetangeorgiev 3 года назад +8

      @@wesleyswafford2462 This is the most profound thing I've read today... Should mention I've been reading mostly tech literature :)

    • @undefined40
      @undefined40 2 года назад +4

      you mean 10:01 , 19'35" is the end of the video (how am I the only one in 2 years mentioning this?)

  • @felixculpa4192
    @felixculpa4192 4 года назад +136

    Until he explained the data of the previous owner stored inside, I was actually wondering if he had taken the time to input a whole bunch of random information just to show us how it worked... I was thinking "man that's some serious dedication there"...

  • @amiralavi6599
    @amiralavi6599 4 года назад +1313

    This device has yellowed a bit
    *8-Bit Guy wants to know your location*

    • @mrkitty777
      @mrkitty777 4 года назад +10

      😁😆😂

    • @robertgaines-tulsa
      @robertgaines-tulsa 4 года назад +45

      He knows, and he's not interested... ruclips.net/video/cIXOH1tJJu4/видео.html

    • @38911bytefree
      @38911bytefree 4 года назад +9

      LOL ... but then, it he will have so many rainy days that it will take ages.

    • @frixyg2050
      @frixyg2050 4 года назад +13

      Still, I wouldn't mind seeing it wretchrowbreighted (or one of those spellings).

    • @YoStu242
      @YoStu242 4 года назад +11

      I have many yellowed devices in my mouth, 8bitguy where art thouuu

  • @zappawench6048
    @zappawench6048 4 года назад +337

    You've become a telephone sanitizer as per Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

    • @pegtooth2006
      @pegtooth2006 4 года назад +18

      Yes and he has a forest load of money. If you don't believe me, go ask the head honcho in the large bath tub.

    • @ederst9759
      @ederst9759 4 года назад +8

      Must have been retrieved from the wreckage of the 'B'' Ark...

  • @lurid_phaesporia
    @lurid_phaesporia 4 года назад +562

    Hah, the calendar's actually got a better user interface than a lot of modern apps these days.

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 4 года назад +60

      Lurid Phaesporia And everything is in one place and integrated. Today you may have to open several desktop and web apps to do the same thing, interrupted by various prompts and ads. User experience is at the bottom of the list for software and technology companies today. They just want to squeeze more money out of you.

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 4 года назад +45

      @PrintOmnivore20 Not boomer, am developer. Is boomer an insult these days? I see it thrown around alot. Nothing wrong with being old. You too, one day, will be old, if you're lucky.

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 4 года назад +36

      @PrintOmnivore20 Son, go back to eating avocado toast and getting high scores on your video games while talking on your Obamaphone.

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 4 года назад +21

      @PrintOmnivore20 whoosh

    • @lurid_phaesporia
      @lurid_phaesporia 4 года назад +10

      Wow LOL who is this printed omnivore and where on earth did they learn this "boomer" nonsense. A regular internet troll moron that one.

  • @carriageofnoreturn.1881
    @carriageofnoreturn.1881 4 года назад +534

    I was using one of these until recently when it died in a house move - best phone ever invented. Let me know if you want any instruction manuals. Also, the mystery button you mention at the end was a printer button on the next iteration. Lovely to see one still working!

    • @martinfitzpatrick697
      @martinfitzpatrick697 4 года назад +13

      Do you still have it? I'd be interested in getting a broken one for hacking around with.

    • @carriageofnoreturn.1881
      @carriageofnoreturn.1881 4 года назад +59

      @@martinfitzpatrick697 Hi - I do still have it, but I'm hoping to get it repaired. I've been in conversation with Adrian from Binary Dinosaurs, and he has a cunning plan. If that all goes awry, though, I will bear you in mind.

    • @martinfitzpatrick697
      @martinfitzpatrick697 4 года назад +20

      @@carriageofnoreturn.1881 great, hope it works out! I'd want to get it working too, not many of them left it seems.

    • @edwardanimations6296
      @edwardanimations6296 4 года назад +8

      Include me in that list of people that hopes it works out!

    • @georgemaragos2378
      @georgemaragos2378 4 года назад +9

      @@carriageofnoreturn.1881 And i thought only Baldrick had a cunning plan :)

  • @stevenjlovelace
    @stevenjlovelace 4 года назад +980

    For a machine marketed to millionaires, it's funny that the calculator can't go to a million.

    • @jusb1066
      @jusb1066 4 года назад +249

      it was to calculate others pay, not their own

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 года назад +133

      This got a laugh from me but then my pedantic mode kicked in and remembered that for them, they usually just count in millions anyway. Like shareholder reports. "255.32” for 255,320,000.

    • @ballsrgrossnugly
      @ballsrgrossnugly 4 года назад +53

      @@kaitlyn__L Yup, they simply moved the decimal point 6 places when computing their OWN pay, while doing the grunt's payslips in pov mode with the decimal in the standard position.

    • @pannenkoekspek
      @pannenkoekspek 4 года назад +27

      @@ballsrgrossnugly i want a "pov mode" button on my keyboard. Just to remind my employees i view them as peasants..

    • @mbirth
      @mbirth 4 года назад +19

      Because after buying one, you wouldn't be a millionaire anymore…

  • @CesarAbeid
    @CesarAbeid 4 года назад +366

    The lady from Heidrick & Struggles answered your call on her STC Executel

    • @Halfpipesaur
      @Halfpipesaur 4 года назад +104

      on the Executel's slave unit

    • @CesarAbeid
      @CesarAbeid 4 года назад +20

      Halfpipesaur indeed.

    • @jk9554
      @jk9554 4 года назад +27

      @@Halfpipesaur "slave unit" sounds so much worse than it should in that context.

    • @jorge1170xyz
      @jorge1170xyz 4 года назад +2

      @@Halfpipesaur Lololololol

    • @harukatakahashi8822
      @harukatakahashi8822 4 года назад

      @@jorge1170xyz Lololololololololololololo

  • @futurepastnow
    @futurepastnow 4 года назад +197

    "Faulty Time"
    Yes, phone, yes it is.

  • @ButterBallTheOpossum
    @ButterBallTheOpossum 4 года назад +747

    I wonder if it has a removable mirror for chopping up cocaine.

    • @ButterBallTheOpossum
      @ButterBallTheOpossum 4 года назад +95

      @kloadit You don't necessarily need a mirror,just a smooth,hard, non porous surface. A mirror meets all of those criteria plus a mirror has other uses that you could use as an excuse for having it in your possession. interesting fact: In the 1980s the Lamborghini Countash had removable visor mirrors lol. I wonder what a wealthy person in the 1980s would need a removable mirror for? Probably just for doing makeup I'm sure! 😂

    • @davidbass3178
      @davidbass3178 4 года назад +7

      @@ButterBallTheOpossum thats funny af

    • @pqlasmdhryeiw8
      @pqlasmdhryeiw8 4 года назад +5

      Cocaine paraphernalia is more of a 1970s thing.

    • @throttlebottle5906
      @throttlebottle5906 4 года назад +4

      senses a presence of DEA and law agencies following butterball now

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 4 года назад +7

      They should have included a fake credit card too... you know "just for fun" xD
      OMG Techmoan has actually smiled at 17:30 ... wooo-hoooo!! ;D

  • @NicMG
    @NicMG 4 года назад +224

    Clicked the video, waited for a Blade Runner reference, you never let me down.

    • @trippmoore
      @trippmoore 4 года назад +15

      Eh, with that tiny monitor it looks more like something out of Brazil. Just add a magnifying screen in front and pull off the keyboard cover to expose the wires and it would look exactly like something Sam Lawry would use.

    • @TouhaiDensetsu
      @TouhaiDensetsu 4 года назад +2

      @@trippmoore Or straight outta Alien. I bet the software can easily calculate the landing trajectory.

  • @911ben8
    @911ben8 4 года назад +235

    🎶 “New York, London, Paris, Munich
    Everybody talk about pop muzik!” 🎶

    • @mistermatix8241
      @mistermatix8241 4 года назад +11

      🎵"pop pop pop pop pop pop muzik!" 🎵

    • @lucianoleali9526
      @lucianoleali9526 4 года назад +8

      Talk about !

    • @shadshowadradna
      @shadshowadradna 4 года назад +2

      Leeds, Detroit, Berlin, New York.

    • @1974UTuber
      @1974UTuber 4 года назад +8

      OK now I have dust off the record player and dig out the record.
      I could bring the song up on youtube but its just not the same as putting the needle on the record

    • @originalmossman
      @originalmossman 4 года назад +6

      @@1974UTuber put the needle on the record, when the drumbeat goes like this...

  • @JeepBoiFL
    @JeepBoiFL 4 года назад +3

    I know this is lame but when I saw the note -call___ "if no contact", that phrase sparked memories. Back in the 90s when I had cubicle and tie jobs that was a common sticky note I would place on the wall in front of me. Definitely reminded me of, IMO, better times when a person was only reachable at their office or by paging them. You always had the time to think through the business at hand as opposed to how it is now. Instant is not always the best or most productive.
    (I used the acronym "INC" on my notes to remind me)

  • @alptigin5438
    @alptigin5438 4 года назад +121

    Hang on, my shoulder pads aren't big enough to be watching this video.
    I also seem to be out of L.A. Looks Ultra Hold.

  • @binarydinosaurs
    @binarydinosaurs 4 года назад +145

    Thanks for the nod to my STC page which I've realised is sorely out of date :) When I first saw one of these back in 2016 I didn't care what it was, I just had to have one. The resemblance to a Beocenter was striking and there's reasons it won a design award. These days thanks to the generosity of STC ex-staffers I have the motherlode of Executel goodness which is awesome, and the demo unit that went around the world will once again be on display at the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge UK at the Retro Weekend on the 7/8th September. Your unit is an early version missing the printer capability, later versions had not only serial printer support (hence your missing key) but also an external RGB socket so you could hook up to a large SCART TV to show off your stocks and shares on Prestel. A quick note about the One Per Desk - the project manager for the Executel was also responsible for the Wunper.

    • @GrahamDenison
      @GrahamDenison 4 года назад

      Adrian Graham I was thinking OPD as soon as I saw it.

    • @binarydinosaurs
      @binarydinosaurs 4 года назад +5

      @@GrahamDenison The main difference is that the 3910 is a computerised phone whereas the Wunper is a computer that happens to be nailed to a 2 line phone exchange. I need to revise my OPD page though, I wrote that back in 2002.

    • @lucidphreak1137
      @lucidphreak1137 4 года назад +2

      youre right.. it DOES look like a B&O device.

  • @gerrys1
    @gerrys1 2 года назад +12

    I love the voyeristic look into the past as much as the tech! Also you found the company, heidrick and struggles is a massive executive search company around since the 1950s and several of the other names in the addressbook worked there

  • @HowieHaigh
    @HowieHaigh 4 года назад +62

    I'm so glad you mentioned the ICL One Per Desk units. I worked at a computer company where the managers were given these. One of my mischievous colleagues managed to coax the speech synthesiser into saying something along the lines of "I cannot take your call at the moment as I am busy servicing my secretary" (which in those days might not have been too far from the truth with a couple of the managers...) 😂

    • @theenzoferrari458
      @theenzoferrari458 4 года назад +7

      Bill Clinton knows about that. :]

    • @binarydinosaurs
      @binarydinosaurs 4 года назад +6

      The best I made one of mine say was "My Secretary is giv_ing me head in the office on holiday"

  • @k3ntris
    @k3ntris 4 года назад +96

    You know, I love the old quirky designs of old technology. Now it’s just flat panels and thin everything.

    • @DogSerious
      @DogSerious 4 года назад +5

      You can thank the USS Enterprise-D for that, but they did make it look cool.

    • @francisgaba4457
      @francisgaba4457 4 года назад +3

      OLD WAS GOLD: TEC ADVANCED BUT DESIGNS DISAPPEARD: I KEEP LOOKING FOR AMAZING ELECTRONIC DESIGNS:

    • @mrcaboosevg6089
      @mrcaboosevg6089 4 года назад +5

      I like how stuff changes, modern stuff looks good but in 20 years we'll be wondering how dumb we all were.

    • @charlesroberts3650
      @charlesroberts3650 4 года назад

      I don't think that "quirky" is the adjective here, it would only apply if there had being some contemporaneous way to have designed it differently, "better", if ANOTHER, less "quirky" way was available. This was state of the art. "Quirky" would apply to, for example, the way that things were done in (early) Widows PCs; very awkwardly, in an un-intuative way, with a clunky interface, with garish CLUTs (Color look-up Tables). This, in comparison to the smooth responsiveness, ELEGANCE, and beautiful color pallets that the Macintosh had and used at that same time. Now, THAT was "Quirky". You cannot compare the "old" state-of the-art designs to the new. It'd be like trying to compare, unfavorably, the way that cars used to be designed in the 1950s to the way they are designed in this age, they did not have the technological, advanced know-how that we do today, they could not have done it differently. A more apt adjective would be "Quaint".
      "The adjective "quirky" is often used to describe those unconventional things that are characterized by peculiar behavior or an UNEXPECTED point of view".
      "Quaint", having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house".
      I hope that I did not irritate or BORE you.

    • @CockatooDude
      @CockatooDude 4 года назад +3

      Not necessarily, I would point you to custom PC builds, those can take on all sorts of cool shapes and sizes.

  • @AndySmallbone
    @AndySmallbone 4 года назад +31

    My Dad worked for STC all his working life, first in London and then moved to Basildon, Essex in the 60s before moving to Harlow till it became Nortel Networks till he retired. I worked for them as well in Basildon for sometime.
    Funny that the green phone was also made by STC for BT.
    They had so much cool tech in the factory including equipment that floated on a bed of air on a special coated floor.

    • @mjarbar3204
      @mjarbar3204 4 года назад +2

      I have lived in Basildon since the early 1970's and I wondered why STC sounded familar!

  • @OnnieKoski
    @OnnieKoski 4 года назад +57

    I love the idea of having to spin up micro cassettes to spy on someones’s 25 year old calendar. Now all you have to do is ask FaceBook

  • @AthenaNova1
    @AthenaNova1 4 года назад +147

    A way around the Y2K year issue would be to set the calendar year to 1985 or 1991. They have the same days of the week as 2019. That's the way I do it on vintage devices.

    • @MusicalArmageddon
      @MusicalArmageddon 4 года назад +36

      Not 1985, because that wouldn't sync up with leap years. 2020 and 1992 are leap years; 1986 is not.

    • @alainportant6412
      @alainportant6412 3 года назад +2

      @@MusicalArmageddon why are you being a dick?

    • @aliatef7203
      @aliatef7203 3 года назад +23

      @@alainportant6412 correcting someone being considered dick behaviour must be a leading contributor to ignorance everywhere

    • @nthgth
      @nthgth 3 года назад +6

      @@aliatef7203 _Mic dropped._
      That was actually a very helpful correction

    • @imperialspy3457
      @imperialspy3457 2 года назад +1

      @@alainportant6412 the comment is concise, helpful and free of insults. You are the dick here.

  • @Orinslayer
    @Orinslayer 4 года назад +182

    The 80's and 90's were big on those fake cooling fins.

    • @bicycleninja1685
      @bicycleninja1685 4 года назад +12

      Orin Anthony Xbox original has them as well.

    • @TheDonSapius
      @TheDonSapius 3 года назад +1

      Lol, Atari 2600 though.

    • @petros_adamopoulos
      @petros_adamopoulos 3 года назад

      I don't think most fins are fake, there was heat to dissipate even back then.

    • @Leo9ine
      @Leo9ine 3 года назад

      All thanks to the Ferrari 512 Testarossa which innovated the design.

    • @Wolfstanus
      @Wolfstanus 3 года назад

      Most of them weren't fake, just a clever way of hiding the tiny holes

  • @DjNikGnashers
    @DjNikGnashers 4 года назад +50

    You never cease to amaze me, with the sheer number of unheard of technology items you discover. Every video is a learning day, thank you so much.

  • @haroonabassi1821
    @haroonabassi1821 4 года назад +28

    It really does look like something Sean Connery would have sitting on his desk while he's sipping coffee and viewing security footage on an off-world deep space mining colony.

  • @dwoodman26
    @dwoodman26 4 года назад +14

    13:01 That ringer is a time machine! I was instantly transported back to the 80's.

  • @BillAnt
    @BillAnt 4 года назад +23

    OMG Techmoan has actually smiled at 17:30 ... wooo-hoooo!! ;D

  • @AndersEngerJensen
    @AndersEngerJensen 4 года назад +73

    The good old 80s business life! 😂😎 Things haven’t changed much though, except that people tend to deal with mails and enquiries themselves (with the exception of those very high end brass CEOs perhaps). Just as much stress and work now as in 1985.

    • @cleverlyblonde
      @cleverlyblonde 4 года назад +6

      Some lawyers offices in sweden and norway still have the secretary thing going on, but now it's "Office assistant" or "Chief Organising Executive" etc. Predominantly women hold these though, in 2019. ;)

  • @TheGramophoneGirl
    @TheGramophoneGirl 4 года назад +58

    OMG I remember those. I went for work experience with a tech company in 1986 and the boss had one and I thought he was the bees knees for having one. What a blast from the past!

    • @lifeisgood12341
      @lifeisgood12341 4 года назад +1

      Awesome

    • @Madmonk
      @Madmonk 4 года назад +2

      "i taught he was the bees knees" is enough of a blast from the past for me thanks

    • @TheJosep70
      @TheJosep70 4 года назад +4

      @kiyonexus And judging by your comment you must be 12 at most...

  • @KevReillyUK
    @KevReillyUK 4 года назад +13

    Everything about this video is a delight, from the device itself through the 1993 time capsule on the cassette to the dad jokes.
    And what a stunning bit of industrial design that thing is. I got an immediate Blade Runner / 2010 / Tron vibe so I'm glad to see at least one of those got an inevitable callout.
    As for the person whose machine this was, he or she (but let's be honest, in the early 90s more likely he) seems to have embraced the whole digital calendar thing with great enthusiasm. I like to think that, if he didn't retire, he switched to a Psion Series 3a around 1993. It would have been like putting his whole desktop in his pocket.

    • @TheJosep70
      @TheJosep70 4 года назад +2

      Tron was so advanced for its time Dillinger even had a giant touchscreen under the table top.

  • @scottd9448
    @scottd9448 4 года назад +4

    That is a fantastic piece of kit! Funnily, I did some work at Heidrick & Struggles a couple of years ago in Chicago. This reminds me of the Seiko Data 2000 watch that I had in 1991 in the 5th year at school. I used it to take notes in IT on the BBC Micro's.

  • @leerosevere3286
    @leerosevere3286 4 года назад +104

    I truly appreciate the M reference

    • @alliejr
      @alliejr 4 года назад +6

      Brilliant! M Pop Music!

    • @darrenkrivit6854
      @darrenkrivit6854 4 года назад +3

      I had that 45rpm single😎 great song

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 4 года назад +6

      I knew he was going to say it! 😊

    • @brianl4366
      @brianl4366 4 года назад +9

      @@5roundsrapid263 I think anybody in a certain age range is going to hear that in their heads as soon as somebody goes 'New York London Paris...' :)

    • @johannes914
      @johannes914 4 года назад +2

      @@alliejr he made my day. Now I have to listen again to this wonderfull track.

  • @tsdarc
    @tsdarc 4 года назад +131

    The design is really reminiscent of old Bang & Olufsen BeoCenter HiFis

    • @TheRealColBosch
      @TheRealColBosch 4 года назад +3

      That's what I was trying to think of. It really does!

    • @tmc-bh1eo
      @tmc-bh1eo 4 года назад

      My thoughts exactly!

    • @peterlinddk
      @peterlinddk 4 года назад +2

      Exactly. Especially the 2200 series, from 1979/1980.

    • @JimUK
      @JimUK 4 года назад +1

      Yes that what I thought when I first saw it.

    • @beitie
      @beitie 4 года назад +2

      As an owner of a Beocenter 9000, I agree.

  • @MarvelDcImage
    @MarvelDcImage 4 года назад +11

    That was an impressive phone receptionist for H&S - I can tell how high quality a firm is in their employee staffing/training based on how professional the receptionist is. Especially these days when firms just replace receptionists with temps if they have any at all.

  • @The1Nomad
    @The1Nomad 4 года назад +29

    On a more random note, I recently saw an Executel on an episode of Gerry Andersen's Space Precinct. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

    • @boredfartless4221
      @boredfartless4221 4 года назад

      Probably it will pop up in all sorts of 80s TV and Movies

  • @victorhugotoledocofre1366
    @victorhugotoledocofre1366 4 года назад +132

    A new Techmoan video. The perfect way to spice up an otherwise dull Saturday.

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 4 года назад +6

      I like to organize my paper clips on Saturdays but now I have to watch this! I hope my paper clips aren't too disorganized this week. I like to keep the smalls with the smalls, the big with the big, etc

    • @GreenAppelPie
      @GreenAppelPie 4 года назад +4

      Víctor Hugo Toledo Cofré just as good as Saturday morning cartoons in the 80s.

    • @sailaab
      @sailaab 4 года назад +1

      and I thought I was the only lonely one

  • @TombstoneChris
    @TombstoneChris 4 года назад +59

    3:30 a.m. here in Florida and I get a notification of a techmoan video and I instantly click. Absolutely one of my favorite channels. I can't wait a smartphone from 1984 wow.

  • @sagichnicht6748
    @sagichnicht6748 4 года назад +3

    The minicassette was Made in Austria. Oh those were the days :)
    Greetings from Austria.

  • @mittfh
    @mittfh 4 года назад +24

    "And he takes a train from London to Runcorn - it can't be all fun and games, can it?!" 😁

    • @lucidphreak1137
      @lucidphreak1137 4 года назад

      what does that mean? im a yank and have zero clue what the meaning of that is..... obviously he was being "cheeky" though. :)

    • @lucidphreak1137
      @lucidphreak1137 4 года назад

      ahhh.. in that its a long commute?

    • @tigerchillyable
      @tigerchillyable 4 года назад +4

      lucid phreak Runcorn is a shithole. Watch a show called 2 pints of larger and packet of crisps.

  • @chrisfreemesser5707
    @chrisfreemesser5707 4 года назад +112

    OMFG the Pop Musik reference made me laugh out loud

    • @WaltonPete
      @WaltonPete 4 года назад +8

      "Everybody's talkin' 'bout pop music!"

    • @Quick_Fix
      @Quick_Fix 4 года назад +3

      I wonder how many of the younger viewers got that little in joke. 😋

    • @JackBealeGuitar
      @JackBealeGuitar 4 года назад +4

      Yes, it's rare for me to actually lol, but I did at that, such a crap joke, it just broke me :D

    • @sverkermarklund6709
      @sverkermarklund6709 4 года назад +3

      Brilliant. One of my favorites at the time it came out and still a good one :)

    • @JanBabiuchHall
      @JanBabiuchHall 4 года назад

      Quick Fix I did not :(

  • @tychosis
    @tychosis 4 года назад +37

    Per Wikipedia, Heidrick & Struggles appears to be an executive search firm--you know, the companies that go headhunt for people looking for executives. Anyway they apparently started in 1953 and eventually had over 50 offices in six continents.

    • @gcewing
      @gcewing 4 года назад +9

      Sounds like they may have been singlehandedly responsible for most of STC's sales of Executels...

    • @cgavin1
      @cgavin1 4 года назад +1

      50 offices on six continents... nobody has ever heard of them. Definitely a CIA front.

    • @dominateeye
      @dominateeye 2 года назад +6

      I know this is a few years old now, but I think there's a good chance that this device was in fact used by someone from Heidrick & Struggles. I've looked up their list of offices, and the only places he reads out at 15:36 that aren't on their website are Barcelona and Greenwich. I think it's plausible that those offices got folded into the Madrid and London offices, respectively. Considering that only two of those locations no longer have H&S offices, and one of the phone numbers still works, and this is both a headhunting AND executive consulting firm that would probably send people all over the world... There'd be no proof unless something on the machine specifically mentioned being owned by H&S, of course, but I think it's a reasonable conclusion to say it was owned by that company.
      Jury's still out on whether it's a CIA front, though.

  • @GVCarroll71
    @GVCarroll71 4 года назад +9

    "Don't be surprised if that doesn't ring a bell." I see what you did there.

  • @SudaNIm103
    @SudaNIm103 4 года назад +7

    Beautiful. Looks kind of like an early AT&T Merlin deskset that was the unlikely love child of a B&O BeoMaster, and a Mitsubishi Visitel, but manufactured by Tandberg. I love it!

  • @JimnyVR5
    @JimnyVR5 4 года назад +633

    Please don‘t start calling your secretary the "slave-unit" after watching this...

    • @demogorgonzola
      @demogorgonzola 4 года назад +53

      On the other hand, calling Secretary of State a Slave-Unit is quite funny.

    • @bland9876
      @bland9876 4 года назад +39

      Is it ok if the secretary is black?

    • @SionynJones
      @SionynJones 4 года назад +13

      "primary" and "secondary" is the preferred terminology from master and slave. I'll give you that slave and master is a egregious.
      But you have to remember techmoan makes videos about periods time. That was just the terminology from a old model of communication standards.

    • @ukeyaoitrash2618
      @ukeyaoitrash2618 4 года назад +44

      @@SionynJones bdsm uses master and slave all the time and were not gonna change lol
      So yeah depending on context I think the terms are fine

    • @shadshowadradna
      @shadshowadradna 4 года назад +7

      "She'll have access through her keyboard and screen..."

  • @woofgbruk5947
    @woofgbruk5947 4 года назад +55

    This would not have looked out of place on CMDR Straker`s desk in Gerry Anderson`s UFO!

  • @chrisbircham221
    @chrisbircham221 4 года назад +3

    Had one of these in our shop, I finally re-tubed it in 2000 & it still worked fine, everyone thought it was fantastic.

  • @pgibsonorg
    @pgibsonorg 3 года назад +1

    I texted my dad and received confirmation that he is indeed the lunch contact shown at 9:55
    Such a small world! Thanks for showing off this nifty machine.

  • @Oldermodels_are_twitchy
    @Oldermodels_are_twitchy 4 года назад +14

    New York, London, Paris, Munich - Thanks for that earworm Techmoan...

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад

      Everybody talk about... Which version did you get?

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад

      @@davidjames579 Try google

    • @s.kxx1956
      @s.kxx1956 4 года назад

      New york, paris, peckham you mean haha

  • @wrestleswithangels
    @wrestleswithangels 4 года назад +9

    This had been one of the most fascinating pieces of retro tech that I've seen. Thanks for sharing!!

  • @cubeflinger
    @cubeflinger 4 года назад +2

    In love with that screen. Right out of alien.

  • @JohnnyX50
    @JohnnyX50 4 года назад +8

    The look on your face when the lady answers was bloody hilarious :D

  • @areyouserious3092
    @areyouserious3092 4 года назад +29

    What a fantastic looking piece of equipment and someone got value for money out of it by using it for over ten years lol. Brilliant video buddie.

  • @AnonyDave
    @AnonyDave 4 года назад +211

    Perhaps his cocaine habit finally took him in '93 🤔

    • @lashyndragon
      @lashyndragon 4 года назад +36

      The keyboard was probably sticky from all the rails he did off of the surface over the years.

    • @AnonyDave
      @AnonyDave 4 года назад +15

      @@lashyndragon Line of coke, then drop his can of coke on the keyboard. *shudders*

    • @sophieewohaa
      @sophieewohaa 4 года назад +24

      That's when he became a Conservative MP.

    • @ericpode6095
      @ericpode6095 4 года назад +11

      @@sophieewohaa could be worse, he could have joined Labour. 🙄

    • @steviebboy69
      @steviebboy69 4 года назад +4

      @@lashyndragon Maybe also sticky because of all the Nicotine and Tar residue. Maybe Mr Retromancave can retro bright the thing.,

  • @dereksmith7781
    @dereksmith7781 4 года назад +18

    It looks like the video phone they used In aliens! Try calling Wayland Yutani corporate office 😂😂

  • @pkeshish
    @pkeshish 4 года назад +2

    This video and device (STC Executel) just became my favorite! :-)
    The design is lovely. Simply gorgeous.
    Thank you.

  • @alastairbarkley6572
    @alastairbarkley6572 4 года назад +4

    STC was part of the US telecoms giant ITT - and that's one of the contacts/appointments (can't remember which) left in your Executel's memory. Is it possible your phone was actually used by one of the STC executives - particularly if the units never sold very well? You can imagine unsold Executels being recycled by for internal use.

  • @hiterss
    @hiterss 4 года назад +10

    Hahaha I LOVE YOUR CURIOSITY dialing the numbers, trying to figure out what company could've been 😂😂!
    Love from Mexico

  • @donmoore7785
    @donmoore7785 4 года назад

    Another outstanding time capsule - you have an amazing talent, finding these pieces of old technology. Then obtaining them, in *great* condition. Then explaining them.

  • @TwoWholeWorms
    @TwoWholeWorms 4 года назад +9

    Damn you, I've been after one of these for ages for a project, and now the bloody prices are gonna shoot through the roof. xD

  • @reidkeevers
    @reidkeevers 4 года назад +3

    What a fascinating piece of telecommunications technology, as a Telecom collector/enthusiast I love to see obscure items like this.
    Interesting to note STC also had a large holding in Australia with their close connection with Telecom Australia (later Telstra) but we never got the Executel, Telecom Australia opted to go with the One Per Desk for their move into desktop computing, rebadging it as the Telecom Australia Computerphone.
    Also, hats off for the M reference!

  • @deadfreightwest5956
    @deadfreightwest5956 4 года назад +8

    6:26 - You are seriously overdue for that meeting with Chris Canty Kapiti!

    • @jasonrfoss248
      @jasonrfoss248 4 года назад

      Kapiti is in New Zealand and H&S had an office in Wellington New Zealand that serviced that area. Unfortunately Chris Canty is also the name of a fairly well-known American football player so if you Google the name that's all you really get.

  • @empathicallyyours4937
    @empathicallyyours4937 4 года назад

    Thank you so much for yet another most unique, concise and fully detailed documentary on gadgets of the yesteryears.

  • @HughRaine
    @HughRaine 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for that clean, isolated, royalty free sound effect of a phone ringing! CASHBACK!

  • @photolabguy
    @photolabguy 4 года назад +61

    It looks like an Atari 5200 with a keyboard.

    • @stevebollinger3463
      @stevebollinger3463 4 года назад +6

      It looks like there is some 7800 mixed in there. The colored stripe across it is very much like a 7800.

    • @Wflash00
      @Wflash00 4 года назад

      It looks like a mix of the Timex Sinclair 2068 and the Atari 800xl to me

    • @lucidphreak1137
      @lucidphreak1137 4 года назад

      agree completely... that silver piece with the orange line is also a rip...

    • @JeeGee114
      @JeeGee114 4 года назад

      Ti 99 4a

  • @matthewwilkes6162
    @matthewwilkes6162 4 года назад +55

    "If that doesn't ring a bell"
    Groan.

  • @quirqq
    @quirqq 4 года назад +27

    1k+ bonus points for the Pop Muzik joke! Does it come with a fresh keytar shoulder strap? Any salacious ASCII art on the casstte? :P

  • @mistermatix8241
    @mistermatix8241 4 года назад +20

    Looks like something designed by Bang & Olufsen, their horizontal components had that same look.

  • @gushiperson
    @gushiperson 2 года назад +3

    Look up the AT&T Personal Terminal 510. Touchscreen, computer terminal integrated with phone. Similar idea but wildly different execution. Super rare and I'd love to see TechMoan or Fran Blanche do an exploration of one.

  • @robertmahoney3788
    @robertmahoney3788 4 года назад

    That's one of the best reviews I've seen. Brilliant and fascinating.

  • @joejoe3011
    @joejoe3011 4 года назад +15

    New York, London, Paris, Munich
    Everybody talk about pop muzik

    • @stella-vu8vh
      @stella-vu8vh 3 года назад

      can't recall the name of this song? help plz

    • @joejoe3011
      @joejoe3011 3 года назад

      @@stella-vu8vh "Pop Muzik" by M

  • @da5idnz
    @da5idnz 4 года назад +10

    It looks like something you might have seen in _Space 1999_

    • @da5idnz
      @da5idnz 4 года назад

      @John Stroud With flared trousers :)

    • @dashcamandy2242
      @dashcamandy2242 4 года назад

      "Space: 1999" just randomly began showing up in my recommended videos about a week ago, and I've been on/off binge watching... Yes, it would fit the series nicely.

  • @pk-so1mj
    @pk-so1mj 4 года назад +9

    Weird thing is there was a business here in Australia still using one of these till only a few years ago. It was owned by Plymouth Brethrens, I wondered what it was until seeing this 😆?

    • @mcmurdostation7134
      @mcmurdostation7134 3 года назад

      Lol These things are made to last forever and for weird old bosses

  • @politicaltrucker5269
    @politicaltrucker5269 4 года назад +1

    Idk what it is but I love your videos. Once I start watching I can’t stop till the end

  • @adankseasonads935
    @adankseasonads935 4 года назад

    That was so fun to watch. Thanks again for another awesome trip into the past. This episode, the past was the year of my birth 1984.

  • @mattround5071
    @mattround5071 4 года назад +6

    No Matt, the 'Pop Music' joke was brilliant!! Thanks for all the great content..

    • @stulop
      @stulop 4 года назад

      Yes, that gave me a chuckle.

  • @neonte13
    @neonte13 4 года назад +4

    Man, I really need to get around to rewatching Blade Runner!
    Actually, I was thinking of Max Headroom, for where it could come from, what with everything having a telly screen. I could totally see Theora talking to Edison, with his camera feed appearing on the phone's screen, then Murray comes in, turns the screen so he can see it, Theora huffs sarcastically before leaning in to see, again. As a bonus, Max could pop up on it, later, and pretend to be an uppity business man.

  • @MetalTrabant
    @MetalTrabant 4 года назад +1

    Amazingly fun video! It's like a time travel with all that appointments and names still on the tape, we can sneak-peek into the everydays of a high-fly executive in '93, awesome!

  • @rvenden
    @rvenden 4 года назад

    Old technologies are so interesting. Thank you for your work! I love your videos and sense of humor. Roger in Wisconsin

  • @francisfarmer6005
    @francisfarmer6005 4 года назад +4

    U r my fav geek/dork on the whole internet! Much Love

  • @wojiaobill
    @wojiaobill 4 года назад +3

    I still remember when call display was introduced. What a breakthrough that was!

  • @chrishenderson07
    @chrishenderson07 3 года назад

    Maybe on of the best Techmoan's ever. The mystery, and solving that mystery, give a personal touch that dissecting a DAT machine just doesn't have.

  • @leandrosomvintageconsertos
    @leandrosomvintageconsertos 3 года назад

    I have always loved compact and different devices. And your Techmoan channel is crazy! I think I saw all the videos, and each new device that appears is waiting for you to open them to see inside. I'm a fan of different devices. Too bad nowadays it is more difficult to surprise.

  • @aussie8114
    @aussie8114 4 года назад +34

    Coincidently I have an appointment set up for midday tomorrow at Kentucky Chicken 🍗

    • @trippmoore
      @trippmoore 4 года назад +7

      LAZY DOG pick me up a 12 piece bucket with extra mashed potatoes and gravy please.

    • @aussie8114
      @aussie8114 4 года назад +4

      Christopher Formulak Mmmmmm love their mash and gravy 😋

    • @mons.romerodurante8086
      @mons.romerodurante8086 4 года назад

      Since KFC stopped using _The Hound_ to promote their chicken products, I have mostly been using Subway.

    • @tynewlin
      @tynewlin 4 года назад

      @@mons.romerodurante8086 That seems a little odd. Did you also go on a Taco Bell strike when they stopped using the chihuahua with a Mexican accent because it was "racist".

    • @mons.romerodurante8086
      @mons.romerodurante8086 4 года назад

      No. There are no Taco Bells here, I have never seen the advert you refer to and I'm not overly encumbered by political correctness anyway.

  • @tubester4567
    @tubester4567 4 года назад +23

    New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody talkiin about Pop Music!! The younger kids probably didnt understand that reference. Song is called Pop Muzik by M

  • @ArlenMoulton2
    @ArlenMoulton2 4 года назад

    This is genuinely one of the coolest pieces of tech I've ever seen, I love it!

  • @avishinka
    @avishinka 4 года назад

    Best was calling and sneaking into personal details. Loved that.

  • @radry100
    @radry100 4 года назад +4

    This is extremely amazing for the time it was released.

  • @ThePiquedPigeon
    @ThePiquedPigeon 4 года назад +120

    > "Smart phone" instead of "smartphone"
    I see what you did there...

    • @dr.python
      @dr.python 4 года назад

      You're not a real doctor

  • @Donfuy
    @Donfuy 4 года назад

    What impressed me the most was the user interface for the agenda. Very clear and well laid out. I've seen a lot of proper smartphone apps that are way way worse.

  • @emanatingf
    @emanatingf 4 года назад

    I'm happy that this was done. I usually wouldn't comment like now but I really got something out this Video. Very carefully & smoothly handled out.

  • @ericwoytasek269
    @ericwoytasek269 4 года назад +8

    Misses-a Wiggens, you come in here right-a now. I can't figure out how to use this darn-a thing!

    • @sweethomeboston2720
      @sweethomeboston2720 4 года назад +2

      Beautiful! ROFL! Here's the original Tudball/Wiggins intercom sketch in case you didn't look it up ruclips.net/video/KIZA7ghxWBQ/видео.html Loved the way she would always wind him up and bust his ______

    • @ericwoytasek269
      @ericwoytasek269 4 года назад

      @@sweethomeboston2720 Lol! Thanks!

    • @dadadaddyoo
      @dadadaddyoo 4 года назад

      Thanks for the Carol Burnett reference! Really takes me back, in a good way.

  • @Popk1ller
    @Popk1ller 4 года назад +5

    This Telephone will fit perfectly standing nearby an late 80's bang & olufsen stereo system

    • @Popk1ller
      @Popk1ller 3 года назад

      @@NuGanjaTron they Made the beocom phones
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeoCom

  • @goodtimeswerehad
    @goodtimeswerehad 4 года назад +1

    I worked at STC in New Southgate in the early 90’s and when it became Northern Telecom. I installed PABX systems similar to this called SDX that also had a top end device of this nature. Thanks for a trip down memory lane

  • @thecentralscrutinizer304
    @thecentralscrutinizer304 3 года назад

    I. Love. Your. Videos. One of the best channels on RUclips. Keep up the awesome work good sir.

  • @TheChiefHobbit
    @TheChiefHobbit 4 года назад +9

    What a fantastic machine , kind of reminds me of a lot of my Bang & Olufsen stereos! with its “stainless steel” like finish and sleek design. Overall great video!

    • @masterluisYTV
      @masterluisYTV 4 года назад

      bang & olufsen has garbage equipment.so it makes sense

  • @moochincrawdad
    @moochincrawdad 4 года назад +38

    Next generation technology from 1984, thwarted by the millennium bug! 😃

  • @Christopher-N
    @Christopher-N 4 года назад +2

    This device reminds me that I miss having a pocket electronic organizer.
    What I don't miss is the hinges on the protective cover failing.

  • @rs52594
    @rs52594 Год назад

    So cool! Always love 80s retro tech that looked futuristic. They don't make them like they used to anymore.

  • @Strawberry92fs
    @Strawberry92fs 4 года назад +7

    It looks like a phone I'd see in a ridley scott movie. Lol you just said it as I was typing.

    • @thedaniespot
      @thedaniespot 4 года назад

      Caboose 92m great minds think alike