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Shades of a Japanese, Star Wars phone droid? (classic green NTT public payphone, early 1980's) (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/cassettefuturism@lemmy.world
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I'm liberating this one from the evil empire. The original poster recently saw this one at Nagoya, evidently one of the few-ish remaining ones in service. Their post title was:

Orange backlit LCD, check! Phone card slot, check! Japan in 1982 was the future! (An endangered species spotted at Nagoya station)

More examples & angles:
https://www.google.com/search?q=classic+green+NTT+public+payphone+from+Japan&udm=2

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

https://www.ntt-east.co.jp/databook/history-public-phone-1971-1976.html

You can click on the various year ranges, but there have been a variety of types over the years. I don't recall having seen an actual working phone that wasn't green (or is it more yellow? I'm mildly colorblind) and grey.

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