AT&T 1339 Digital Answering System

[@DunceReviews]

I used to have an old wood grain rectangle shape answering machine from radio shack.

[@JordanU]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@DunceReviews]

@ if you can find one that would be great, they used to take a type of cassette tapes for the recordings. I believe some had dual tape inserts

[@LemontTheFanMan]

good video and good testing it out can't wait to see it in future videos to come soon

[@JordanU]

Thanks bro I'll be using it soon.

[@LemontTheFanMan]

@@JordanU Nice your welcome

[@aarondunn1489]

Great video of the AT&T 1339 Digitan Answering the Machine the Jordan! The same voice was on the 1314.

[@JordanU]

Thanks, Aaron.

[@KylerBro12]

glad u were able to make this video before all landline phone service gets shut down in america (Jan 1, 2025)

[@brandonbutchart5576]

Is that actually true?? There is no way lol

[@JordanU]

@@brandonbutchart5576 No, that's not true. Landline service is not being discontinued in the US.

[@Xyspade]

This would be early 90s, and is the second consumer digital answering system from AT&T, following the model 1337 from 1990, which is the identical model but without the voice. I'm assuming the 1337 is also the first machine to use that particular AC adapter design too, since it matches the machine. I think the seven minutes is excusable for one of the first machines and the outstanding recording quality. I believe that the countdown is a full format of the recording memory. Being volatile, it is completely erased to a state of blank after losing power, so in order to be usable again, it must be formatted to whatever filesystem it uses. And in the early days of digitan memory, it just took longer, because it's doing a "full format" rather than a "quick format." The aforementioned 1337 took even longer.

[@JordanU]

I agree the total recording time is excusable, both considering the age and the note on the box. I do wish the message limit wasn't a thing as it seems a bit short, though it's quite possible that's a limitation of the file system. Formatting the memory never occurred to me, but that makes total sense and I think you're probably correct. Chances are there's not even 1 KB of memory in there, but with such little processing power, even writing that much will take some time.

[@z06rcr]

I had this exact unit in the 90’s….when it first came out. Worked well for years until the recorded and outgoing messages became very scratchy and distorted.

[@JordanU]

That's odd, I don't see how the recording quality would have diminished over time.

[@Xyspade]

Possibly a bad AC to AC adapter. As they age they tend to introduce noise into the recording.

[@WeebLabs]

It most likely needs a capacitor or two replaced.

[@JordanU]

I'd be willing to bet it is a capacitor issue before the adapter. I cannot say for certain as I've never autopsied one of these adapters, but I would expect an AC to AC adapter like this is nothing more than a basic winding inside with no electronics to fail. It should be consistent and reliable for a very long time.

[@WeebLabs]

@@JordanU Yes. The power supply is just a transformer. Rectification, smooting and regulation is handled by the unit itself.

[@Ajcimo14]

14:42 I like the way it says "œ" 😂

[@JordanU]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@djbrucebanner9882]

I like it

[@JordanU]

OK