No, that wasn't actor W.C. Fields answering anyone's phone in 1980. (He'd been dead since 1946.) But "Phonies" brought him back to life, or made for a convincing copy of him, on a series of tapes that ...

It was my favorite new toy. How, I soon wondered, did I endure life without an answering machine? Not only did it take calls when I was out, it screened them when I was in. I`d wait for the message to ...

Martin Schneider of the website "Dangerous Minds" reviews a series of pre-recorded outgoing messages made by Radio Shack in the 1980s when home answering machines first cropped up. Sometimes, someone ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The model 1100 Code-a-Phone was one ...