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AT&T Merlin five-button telephone (voice terminal) manufactured in early 1980. AT&T Merlin is a corporate telephone system by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) that was introduced in late 1983, when it was branded American Bell Merlin. After the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, it was rebranded and later also supplied by Lucent and Avaya.
DEFINITY Communications System Generic 3 (Formerly System 75) DIMENSION (Previously made by AT&T) G3MCC (Multi-Carrier Cabinet) HORIZON (Previously made by AT&T) MERLIN ("Classic"; 206, 410, 820. Originally made by AT&T) MERLIN PLUS ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T) MERLIN II ("Classic", Originally made by AT&T) MERLIN LEGEND
As a twenty-five percent owner, AT&T Information Systems utilized production of Olivetti to manufacture their AT&T PC 6300 series of computers. Along with the 3B series computers and the AT&T UNIX PC the PC 6300 series of computers represented a multi-faceted strategy of competing with IBM , who was the leading computer manufacturer of the time.
In 1988, Nortel developed the Meridian Norstar system. This system directly competed with the AT&T Merlin, ROLM Redwood, Executone/Isotec Hybrid systems, Toshiba DK Strata, and NEC hybrid systems. [1] Unlike the earlier Vantage system, the Norstar went on to be one of the leading telephone systems in the world.
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
AT&T (originally American Telephone & Telegraph Company), after divesting ownership of the Bell System, restructured its remaining companies into three core units. American Bell, Bell Labs and Western Electric were fully absorbed into AT&T, and divided up as an umbrella of several specifically focused companies held by AT&T Technologies, [1] including:
A Bell System logo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1900 [citation needed] AT&T's lines and metallic circuit connections. March 1, 1891. The formation of the Bell Telephone Company superseded an agreement between Alexander Graham Bell and his financiers, principal among them Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Thomas Sanders.