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 door
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 counting
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
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 used
>
> 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 Music on
Hold plug-in modules.
--
Mich
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 gue
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
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"
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? :)
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
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