Originally posted by EV607797:
ITT definitely made them in brown. We sold a bunch of them to government agencies in the 1980's.
Ditto. The Fed's specs were that they would accept either tone or
rotary - but they bought whatever was cheaper - and that was rotary, by about 15% if I remember correctly. In the early '70s we probably did 50/50 rotary/tone with a sizable minority of the sets being brown ITT 564s & 830s. By the late '70s though almost everything commercial around here was going tone.
Except the Federal Government jobs,
I installed a couple of thousand Stromberg - Carlson "mini call directors" (1800 series? I can't remember) - 6 button sets in Brown, Ash & Beige for the feds as late as the early '80s. The S-C set were nice - with all buttons in the up position you had an intercom path available. Almost like getting a 6th line "free".
Sam
