The STC Executel 3910

Standard Telephone & Cable made quite a few phones for British Telecom in the 70s/80s that most people will recognise instantly even though they didn't actually know who made them. Probably like me they thought that BT made all their own stuff which I later found out was completely wrong but hey. In the early 80s they branched out into computerised telephones with this lovely looking beast, the Executel 3910. Fellow collector Tony brought this one to my attention and on seeing the pictures I said 'what the hells is THAT!' and bought it. It's a desk phone, pure and simple, but massively computerised with an AMD8085 processor and 32K RAM plus a 5"^3 monitor for displaying diary and phonebook entries AND, and it's a big AND, PRESTEL access! A recent video by Techmoan - who bought a working model - brought this device to my attention, and I instantly fell in love with it. This is an incredible piece of engineering and forward-thinking.