This gem was used at a company in Huntington Beach, California as an operator console. There are two 2-prong headset jacks in the side, one of which the handset is currently plugged into. The buttons across the top are labeled N1, N2, PAX, BUZ, MON, SPL, SPLIT EXT, SPLIT TRK, INFO 1, INFO 2, INFO 3, INFO 4, (blank — 8 buttons), TOLL DEN (3 buttons), and 11 line buttons with phone numbers printed on them (10 from area code 714, and 1 from former area code 213). Unlike the model 86, these buttons actually have bulbs underneath to light them, they go down or pop back up on each press, and you can have as many as you want pressed down at the same time. Moving down the console, there is a big area of absolutely nothing on the left side of the phone, and then in the center a rotary dial for making outside calls. Next to that are three circles labelled FUSE, PAX SUPV, and KEYSET, but there are no bulbs or openings (the surface is flat and opaque like the rest). Then there is a 10-key pad for connecting to inside extensions plus two keys labelled SP, and keys down the right side labelled BK, DR, KR, and HD. I have no idea what most of these keys were used for. Coming out of the back is a huge bundle of thick trunks terminating in 5 25-pair male plugs. On the bottom is an inspection sticker dated 1980, but this instrument is older than that. The sticker itself, identifying the equipment as type BR, has a printing date of 1973.
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