One time, at band camp -> Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-24 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Hmmm, I think I was confused. I think the system I saw was a #3 ESS, not a #5 ESS. Jon Around the 1993 time frame I was at high school band camp for marching band. We had an hour or so for lunch, so a friend and myself headed off to the nearby Burger King. Burger King was located next

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-24 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 09/20/2019 11:12 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 9/19/19 7:27 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: Where does one find a working 5ESS for home? 5ESS? Hmmm, you must have a pretty BIG home, no? I've had a tour of a 5ESS and it was QUITE big, like 50K square feet at least, not

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-20 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 09/19/2019 19:27, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: A number of years ago I picked up a Lucent Merlin Legend system. ... Around 2000 I picked up an expanded Nortel Compact ICS (CICS) with voice mail unit - might be the last thing I bought from a NetNews post. That was 8 analog CO lines and

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-20 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
5ESS? Hmmm, you must have a pretty BIG home, no? Not really, and most of the space is filled with arcade and pinball machines :-) But it is my understanding that a 5ESS could be widdled down to two racks. And it's not like I would keep it forever. Apparently the management platform that

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-20 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk
> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:27:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: Ethan O'Toole > Subject: PBXes at home > > A number of years ago I picked up a Lucent Merlin Legend system. > > -- > : Ethan O'Toole > I have a little Merlin 410 PBX at home, with the Conference and

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-20 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
Switches like that usually are pretty scalable. Purdue's SL-100 / DMS-100 that handled about 40,000 lines at its peak was similarly sized, and spread across 4 facilities on campus. However, for only a small number of lines, you could get away with maybe just a dozen cabinets worth of stuff. I

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-20 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 9/19/19 7:27 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: Where does one find a working 5ESS for home? 5ESS? Hmmm, you must have a pretty BIG home, no? I've had a tour of a 5ESS and it was QUITE big, like 50K square feet at least, not counting the battery room and the cross connect frames, or

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 9/19/19 7:27 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > The 386 PC ran a unix Sys V 3.2 > It had the full, > awesome Audix Which always tells you "your call is being answered by otters"

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-19 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 9/19/19 7:27 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > > Where does one find a working 5ESS for home? How about a 5XB? :)

Re: PBXes at home

2019-09-19 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 09/19/2019 09:27 PM, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: A number of years ago I picked up a Lucent Merlin Legend system. It was around 1999, and Lucent wouldn't certify the system for "y2k" so this business switched over to a Nortel in a giant middle finger to lucent. About 30 years ago, I

PBXes at home

2019-09-19 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
A number of years ago I picked up a Lucent Merlin Legend system. It was around 1999, and Lucent wouldn't certify the system for "y2k" so this business switched over to a Nortel in a giant middle finger to lucent. The irony is the only thing that was "y2k incompatible" is you had to one