3-4 digit Optical – Phonecard Museum

FRA-0055-OPT-DEM

ezzacards — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:59:09 +0000

France 100 unit
Dark Blue demo (internal trial)
3 digit control 096 coded

One of the very early trials or demo for France Telecom.
Thanks to Alain Knecht for this scan

3 digit controls from L&G are either from series 0 or series 5
Series 0, begins with lowest control 001 to highest seen 123
Series 5, begins with lowest control 501 to highest seen 532 with sub groups used for some of the later numbers ex.523 1, and 523 2 but are still part of the 500 series

FRA-0052-OPT-DEM

ezzacards — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:51:10 +0000

France 20 unit
Dark Blue demo (internal trial)
3 digit control 092 coded

One of the very early trials or demo for France Telecom.

FRA-0045-OPT-DEM

ezzacards — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:42:50 +0000

France 105 unit EN PROMOTION
Dark Blue demo (internal trial)
3 digit control 504 coded

One of the very early trials for France Telecom.
This card has normal strike pattern.
3 digit controls from L&G are either from series 0 or series 5
Series 0, begins with lowest control 001 to highest seen 123
Series 5, begins with lowest control 501 to highest seen 532 with sub groups used for some of the later numbers ex.523 1, and 523 2 but are still part of the 500 series

FRA-0042-OPT-DEM

ezzacards — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:37:03 +0000

France 105 unit EN PROMOTION
Dark Blue demo (NOT coded)
3 digit control 078

Very early uncoded DEMO for France Telecom.
The 078 is only ever seen unencoded. Please contact us if you have a coded demo.

FRA-0040-OPT-DEM

ezzacards — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 09:15:27 +0000

France 105 unit EN PROMOTION
Light Blue demo (lab tested)
3 digit control 076

One of the very early trials for France Telecom.
This card has a pattern of regular 6 strike groups sometimes seen in laboratory tested cards.

GER-1000-OPT-FRK

ezzacards — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:10:14 +0000

Germany L&G Frankfurt demo 1
Red Sodeco control 115 (uncoded)
Only 10 pieces coded, and 10 uncoded were sent in 1980 to Frankfurt Germany for Evaluation.
All have control 115

The first demos for the Frankfurt trials of L&G technology are all this type. (Vermillion Sodeco) The early trials, test and service cards are all the same deep wine red colour (1980-1982). The second stage of testing (1983-1984), where the Deutsche Bundespost branded cards begin production, the colour of the cards are bright red.
Toward the end of the Frankfurt trials in around 1984, cards with thermal band are produced, but the trial ends with the selection of Siemens Chip cards chosen for the National phonecard telephone network.
For more detailed information on L&G Germany please see the website: Optical-Cards