Nortel modem-terminals/display phones

From: Rich Lafferty <rich_at_alcor.concordia.ca>
Date: Thu Feb 10 16:03:49 2000

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:59:26PM -0600, Bill Richman (bill_r_at_inetnebr.com) wrote:
> Next time I'm at the location where they're stored, I can try to find you a
> number. They're RS-232, but they're a bit funky to get to work with
> anything else; I don't remember the details, but it seems like they used
> really odd settings - like 6 bits, mark parity, 2 stop bits. Also, the
> attached phone only works with Northern Telecom phone systems, unless you
> were to gut the whole thing and stick the electronics from a one piece phone
> in them.

Hm, this part's interesting -- while I'm sure there *were* models that
were only PBX-aware, an old neighbour of mine used to work for Nortel
and had one at home, so now I have to find out if they were produced
in any quantity :-/

  -Rich

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