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Talk-A-Phone Company is a communications manufacturer based in Chicago. The company has been providing communication solutions across the globe for more than 65 years. Talk-A-Phone started in the 1930s as manufacture of low- and high- priced record players. The company worked for the military and industry producing intercoms in the 1940s. Intercom and emergency phone systems for the military and industry was Talk-A-Phones core business through the 1970s. Since then the company has provided communication equipment for banks, fast food restaurants, automated gas stations and convenience stores. Now Talk-A-Phone constructs low powered radio frequency and cellular communication units.

Jeron Electronic Systems has been manufacturing voice communication and electronic signaling systems since 1965. The company jumped into the apartment intercom industry during a construction boom in the Chicago in the 1960s. Its intercom systems are used in a variety of applications worldwide, but evidence of the company s roots are still found in renowned buildings, such as the Chicago Carlyle Apartments. In the mid 1970s, the company started supplying sophisticated communication devices to the health care industry. The Provider 680 lies at the forefront of communication technology in the health care environment, offering room-to-room communications, digital duplex intercoms, infrared staff and equipment tracking, PBX telephone interfaces, wireless phones and pocket pagers. Jeron Electronic Systems line of Spectrum 430 and 460 systems offer high security components, built specifically to withstand abuse in public environments, such as commercial buildings, parking facilities and correctional institutions.