Well, I'm a new owner to a Bell Canada payphone (legally) I also got the keys with it.

Now, my issue is this: I need to reprogram the sucker.. Anyone know anything about a payphone that uses a Intellicall Intellistar board?


Thanks.

Google ?

What model? INeedAttention might be able to help you out.

Thats pretty sweet. How much money can you make owning a payphone? I had the same idea a while back, but with an internet kiosk.

Lol, I'm gonna attempt to mod it and use it beside my pool (cause well, its built for the outdoors) or make a "phone kiosk" and keep it near the bar.

Home use only.. shits and giggles.. Only bad thing is.. Its a US payphone.

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any chance you could buy a wired phone w/ a wired handset from the store and use some of the internals to make them work with the pay phone ?

I would use the circuit board from the store phone, run the wires to the handset & run the wires for the hangup switch from the store circuit board. Then find a way to adapt the metal dial keys to use that store board. Then last but not least adapt a phone jack that runs to the store phone board to somewhere on the exterior casing.

If you wanted im sure you could add some LED's and make it even more snazzy.

Then of course your going to need a pretty long phone line from the house.



Sorry I didnt provide better info before, but im sure their are sites out there that will help you achieve the goal of doing what you want to accomplish with the phone.

Posted by sYnOnYx any chance you could buy a wired phone w/ a wired handset from the store and use some of the internals to make them work with the pay phone ? I would use the circuit board from the store phone, run the wires to the handset & run the wires for the hangup switch from the store circuit board. Then find a way to adapt the metal dial keys to use that store board. Then last but not least adapt a phone jack that runs to the store phone board to somewhere on the exterior casing. If you wanted im sure you could add some LED's and make it even more snazzy. Then of course your going to need a pretty long phone line from the house. Sorry I didnt provide better info before, but im sure their are sites out there that will help you achieve the goal of doing what you want to accomplish with the phone.

I'm wanting to keep it "working" as in charge 10 cents per call.. and allow incoming calls... I'm planning on having it outside beside the pool in the summer for when people call me.. Easier to grab a phone made for wet weather/people than a cordless phone..

I've looked around and all I can find is pdf files stating it needs to be programmed by the phone manufacturer.. Which, is not what I want to do. I have not found any specific forums about payphones.. Anyone know of any?

Ugh.. I keep looking.. Hopefully someone will stumble upon this and point me in the right direction.

The source of that phone is actually from AT&T out of Denver, CO. I'm pretty sure its a Elcotel Gemini III with GTE style housing based upon the location of the coin slot (which is kind of funny because I thought AT&T still had arsenal of old Western Electric Fortress phones). I'm guessing Bell Canada needed this for parts but never happened but that even surprises me because I thought Bell for its payphone operations, went to 100% Nortel Millennium phones.

There's nothing Bell Canada about this phone...

Bell only EVER used NT Centurion and the newer Milennium sets.

My guess is a GTE or a COCOT.

Posted by exkalibur There's nothing Bell Canada about this phone... Bell only EVER used NT Centurion and the newer Milennium sets. My guess is a GTE or a COCOT.

Bell did have a few Western Electric Fortress phones in operation in some areas in the 1970s, but yes. And I already did identify the phone as from AT&T (ex-SBC side actually since SBC acquired a lot of ex-GTE areas from Verizon).

Posted by big dave Thats pretty sweet. How much money can you make owning a payphone? I had the same idea a while back, but with an internet kiosk.

Not sure about the kiosk thingy, but you can hook up any payphone to your house line. Turn off the coin feature when you're at home, and back on when guests come over.

The metal backings are expensive, so I found one for free. Just waiting for that right moment to get the phone. -- Kinda waiting to move out of this old place first, then get the toys.

Maybe touch base with your local 2600... The phreaks love COCOTS.

If our local 2600 scene wasn't a joke, I'd have suggested that.

Maybe try the 2600 IRC rooms?

Posted by exkalibur If our local 2600 scene wasn't a joke, I'd have suggested that. Maybe try the 2600 IRC rooms?

HA.

I know there was an IRC room for old timer phreakers; I can't remember where.

I got one from something like payphone.com or some such crap for use in a business, came with programming info, etc. They were very helpful, you might get some info from them as they are a reseller of used gear. I had to replace the Dallas RTC chip in it at one point, had a dead integrated battery. Was a Protel board, different from the one pictured. Maybe try hit em up see what they say.

What you have there is the 3003 Intellicall UltraTel AC-Powered Payphone with the UltraTel Smartboard inside.

Intellicall site:
http://www.intelli...mart_payphones.htm

To program it, you would need to buy the software and interface cable from Intellicall...

I have no idea how much they might want for it tho.


-Banditt.

Don't try to understand why I have two payphones, I guess I just have a obssesion with them.

The first one doesn't work, come from NJ, the sell screw me up

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The second one is working good, the money goes down in the box like it used to in Myrtle Beach for several years before I bought it from a major payphone owner in SC.I did a little paint job on the housing and put a medeco payphone lock on it, there was no lock there when I got it, but I had the for the cashbox

Don't try to understand why I have two payphones, I guess I just have a obssesion with them.

The first one doesn't work, come from NJ, the seller screw me up

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I keep it because at least it looks good

The second one is working good, the money goes down in the box like it used to in Myrtle Beach for several years before I bought it from a major payphone owner in SC.I did a little paint job on the housing and put a medeco payphone lock on it, there was no lock there when I got it, but I had the key for the cashbox






If someone want a working payphone just like that,PM me I can give you the contact informations for the owner of the payphone company.They even come pretty cheap,165$ US, and that was with the very pricey shipping to canada !

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I dont care....untill someone helps me with my VX3200 problem on another common thread on the radio nerd private board............... . . . . . . . . .
Also...i have a few old payphones at home...all legal of course!