Power Issue with a Zenith SM1973 System 3 Space Command with Space Phone

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by josephdaniel

What is space phone?

Space Phone was a feature of some high-end Zenith TVs of the '80s. It basically allowed the user to make and receive telephone calls through the TV and showed the dialed number on the CRT screen. I do not think or believe, however, it had caller ID -- the on-screen display only showed the telephone number (with area code) being dialed at the time, and to be honest, I don't believe any of the telephone companies themselves offered caller ID thirty years ago (the technology that makes caller ID possible probably didn't even exist at the time).

I never had a Space Phone-equipped television, but I read everything about Zenith TVs (the originals, not today's "Zenith"-branded flat screens) I can get my hands on, so I know a little about the Space Phone system -- but not nearly as much as VK member Doug, drh4683 in Chicago. Space Phone was available for only a year or two, and was discontinued by the end of the 1980s. It never returned and, of course, is not offered on today's "Zenith" branded flat panel TVs, the guts of which are made by LG.