I guess it passes the 10-year rule, and it's got some CPUs in it (Z8xxx's)
so maybe it's not as off-topic as I thought... ;-)
We (my fellow techo-packrat housemate and myself) were recently given a
Toshiba Strata XXe phone system and about 35 EKT-series phones by his
company when they got a new system. It was working when disconnected, but
we received no installation manuals - just phone user guides. It's all
there, with (from what I've gathered from various web sites) an HCAU (CPU),
an HCBU (aux CPU), two HCOU (central office) cards, an HINU (intercom) card,
three HSTU-2 and one HSTU-5 (station cards), and an operator's console, but
when they removed it, they just hacked off the 25-pair (or are the 50 pair?)
cables from the HSTU cards, so I've got no way of knowing which pairs go to
the phone jacks. Was wondering if anyone can point me to some information
about this. Several hours of web searching has turned up some tantalizing
hints, but nothing I want to risk blowing something up by trying. Any help
would be very much appreciated. I found one company that will sell me a
manual, but it's a weekend and this phone system _really_ wants to be hooked
up! :-)
Background info (if you're interested):
We have half the stuff in the house automated with X-10 power control
modules and the "Mister House" software using motion sensors, etc. to run
lights, a 300 disc CD changer, software-based phone answering machine, etc.
Mister House (www.misterhouse.net) is mostly a bunch of Perl scripts that
can be made to do most anything with enough work. It also has voice I/O
capability. I've got the whole place wired with ethernet, with laptops in
most of the rooms. I've also got 4-pair CAT3 phone wire to each room. I'd
like to use the XXe to run our phones, as well as letting "Mister House" use
the hands-free intercom functions to talk to us around the house and/or
receive commands from us.
-Bill Richman (bill_r_at_inetnebr.com)
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Received on Sun Nov 19 2000 - 16:46:07 GMT