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Cinch-Jones made the connectors for the 1A2 interrupters Ed. Kind of looks like that but that ain't it. Look at the pins or contacts.

Looks like something Western Electric invented.

-Hal

It does look like a Jones style plug made by Cinch but the contacts look to wide

I like the rest of the pic on the old console better
https://flickr.com/photos/chiclassiccomp/sets/72157600027248081/show/

Hey, I didn't even know flickr could do that. Thanks!

From what I've been able to find, a Jones connector describes all sorts of big blocky connectors used for higher-voltage DC connections, and like a previous poster said, frequently in the audio field. What they're doing here is anyone's guess. The WeCo part # on it, if that's what it is, seems to be 348A, which doesn't lead me anywhere.

Si.7K...wouldn't that be Silent 7000.

Wireless burp..double post.

Depends what you do with that dot ".7k" would be 700. But then you've got the abbreviation problem with the word "silent." Si..7k? Nah.

I've been collecting old computers and such for about ten years now, and have just recently branched into phones. I've got a few Silent 700 units, one of each size, from the little laptop sized one with external acoustic coupler to the big beast that was bigger than a Teletype.

When I first got one I couldn't believe anyone ever logged in that way, wasting so much paper. But later I learned just how expensive a glass TTY was back then, and the small one was truly portable, much more so than any PC of the time.

With some luck and effort I'll have pictures of most of the collection up on that same page I used to post the PBX pics.

We had so many systems that were programmed with Silent 700s..what a blast from the past. When was the last time anyone bought a box of thermal paper? And I'll watch my decimal points.

Ah, that was a use for those small terminals I forgot about. It wasn't just logging in to a shell account

I'd bet there are some thermal fax machines still operating out there under the "if it's not broke don't fix it" rule. Whenever I see thermal fax rolls in thrift stores I grab them for the 700s and some other old terminals I've got.

From what I've been able to find, a Jones connector describes all sorts of big blocky connectors used for higher-voltage DC connections...

Cinch-Jones made and still makes a huge variety of connectors like Amphenol and others do. They wouldn't be limited to a particular industry or even a voltage or current.

-Hal