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Old 15th Jun 2019, 6:20 pm   #8
Pellseinydd
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Default Re: 746 phone with extra buttons

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Originally Posted by qazxsw123 View Post
I would have thought "SEC T" was shortened version of secretary .
That would be my first thought too - so that when already in a call, you could push the "Sec't" button and get your secretary to join the call to take notes/transcripts of the conversation - or alternatively to divert your calls to your secretary when you were busy/out-of-office.

We had something similar on the 74x-phones on the system where I worked in the early-80s: a "Forward" button linked to a call-group, so if you were out/did not want to be disturbed you pressed "Forward" and any calls to your number got routed to the call-group, which was made-up of your other team-members. In the pre-voicemail days this was better than having calls simply go unanswered.
The 'forward' facility sounds very much like button on a featurephone as introduced on electronic systems of the early 1980's where call forwarding was one of the new features.

The PO/BT never had such a button on their 7XX range of telephones.

See N1248 for a picture of the Plan 12A telephone with a 'SEC'T' button for secrecy.

I always thought that 'secretary' ended with a 'y'
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