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I confronted the owner of this "system" and using all your information as ammo I finally pried it out of him that he bought it at Target in the late eighties. It was an early attempt to market a feature rich phone system to the home owner-work at homer without buying a complex and of course, expensive key system. It is a wired system where all sets are wired to the same T and R and the 1050 set controls the 1020 sets. I told him the year was 2016 and referred him to the Internet and suggested he look for wireless home phone systems with speakerphone, intercom, paging, answering, etc.

Thank you for all your feedback.

John O

A Partner ACS would be worth considering as a replacement. Hardware prices on the secondary market have settled, programming, depending upon the customer's requirements, can be very simple and wiring is pretty straight forward.

John, did you get a chance to see the 1050 set? were there electronics in the base and a power source to feed it? Was it like the ComKey 416 base unit?

They must have made so few of them and then denied the ever made it I tried all sorts of sources to see if it showed up in old AT&T catalogs and no dice. By its style and logo, the late 80's early 90's had to set the time frame, as in Post-divestiture but probably pre-Partner.

Anyway, it was a good exercise in finding cordless phones on search engines

Carl

This is similar to the AT&T system 2000, discussed here:
https://sundance-communications.com...cs/560521/AT_T_2052_with_two_2022_phones

Here's the link to a Staples ad with the system 2000 phones
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19921025&id=SolKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=85MMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3555,6056511&hl=en

One set is a Master, the others are Satellite phones. The Master gets 2 lines installed via RJ-14 or (2) RJ-11's. The Satellite phones just get Line 1 via an RJ-11, and via carrier get Line 2 and Intercom