Mad Men Offers Glimpse at 1960s Office Technology

Conference Calls — During season 7 of “Mad Men,” New York-based Sterling, Cooper & Price, which had recently launched a California office, began using a cutting edge device: conference phones. Polycom was all over it. Soon after the device made its debut the audio and video conferencing manufacturer posted a blog about the “funny (and awkward) depiction of how long-distance conference calling made its debut in the modern workplace of early 1969.”