Phone Accessories

Radio Shack Realistic Fone Flasher 43-177 (1985)

This is a device that you connect to the corded phone line, and when a call comes in, it will flash a light to tell you the phone is ringing.

ComShare 450 by Command Communications

This device allowed you to use 3 devices on the same single phone line to the home or office. 2 of the ports are linked, so it can switch between 2 devices such as a phone and modem, the extra linked port can be used for a fax machine or answering machine.

Holux GPSlim 240 Bluetooth GPS (2007)

Can be used with devices such as dash cams, ipads, android tablets, GPS units, and laptops. It will give the device GPS capability, or improve on it.

Sim card reader (Early 2000s)

Back in the early 2000s, many companies made phones with different operating systems, most did not support transferring contacts directly to another phone.

Started the phone collection with the Viking phone landline simulator

I started the collection of phones with the Viking phone landline simulator. This lets me connect any 2 phones together. When you pick up one phone, the other phone will ring and you can talk. If we ever get to open the museum, this could be used as an interactive exhibit.