[geeks] Re: 48v

[Robert J. Slover]

I'm a bit of a phone geek, I guess.  I don't have a great amount of
schtuph anymore, but I still have some (ask my wife, who really does
not appreciate the little stack of span repeaters behind the garage,
though she's happy when I'm able to magically produce whatever type
of telephone some relative needs from my stash).

I was forced to sell my PBX phones to MidWest Electronics while I
was in college (needed cash badly in order to register for the next
quarter).

The company I work for produces software for capacity management
of networks, mostly voice, but some data networks now.

I don't have anything interesting installed at home, though I've been
wanting one of the little Merlin systems for a while.  I dunno, I just
like AT&T equipment, and I always liked those little boxes.  They
look so much nicer than a big off-white rectangle with a screw in the
middle, which is what most of the small systems I've been offered
look like.

--Robert

>   From: James Fogg
>   Organization: Vicinity Corporation
>   To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>   Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: 48v
>   Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:19:14 -0400
>   Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>
>   ok, from my previous postings many will realize I am a phone geek. I admit it,
>   I get a thrill from a dial tone. I can identify dtmf digits by sound. I know
>   the 5X5 color code by heart (really, I do). I know what red - right -
>   ring - rib means. My favorite phones are made of Bakelite(R). And... (this
>   probably puts me way over the top), I have a hybrid PBX in my house (an Iwatsu
>   ZTD 48X64 with both digital and analog extentions, upgraded from several
>   AT&T Merlins).
>
>   It seems some others have some level of phone passion, so lets drag the lakes
>   and see what we come up with.
>
>   Who's a phone geek?
>   Who collects phone schtuph?
>   Who knows the deep history of phone tech?
>   Who has a key system / pbx in their house?
>
>   Maybe this could be the lunchtime poll?
>