BBSs & PPP

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Nov 7 21:03:01 2002

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Mike Ford wrote:
>
> > One of my friends has some kind of AT&T Merlin phone system in his
> > house. He thinks everybody else is missing something.
>
> Merlin's suck. I've got a full-blown miniature central office in my
> house. The eOn (formerly Cortelco) Millennium could easily act as a
> central office for a small neighborhood. It has all the features of a
> regular telephone exchange and is completely programmable, and fits on
> my closet shelf. I currently have 80 ports and a T-1 stuffed into mine
> though I'm only really using about 20 (4 lines, voicemail/auto-attendant
> and about 8 extensions scattered throughout the house). Once I get the
> T-1 clock board for it I'll be using that as my link to the voicemail
> system for clean and seamless call transfers.

Does it support standard analog lines like one would use for modems? How
about pulse dialing? This sounds like what I should look into for my
systems. Where would a similar system be found, and would would the costs
be like? I suspect the only way I could afford such a system will be
surplus/auction/resale, but maybe not...

> I am UberGeek.

I think we all know that by now ;P

-Toth
Received on Thu Nov 07 2002 - 21:03:01 GMT