PBXes at home

[Jon Elson]

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 had a KTU 1A2 phone system in my 
house.  I was trying to add an intercom/paging system to it 
when I was able to buy an NEC Electra 8/16 phone system.
I ran that for 25 years or so, and finally the thing just 
died.  It did paging, intercom, and general PBX 
functionality for the two lines we had.

I now have an Asterisk PBX system with 4 Snom 300 VOIP 
phones.  It does way more than the NEC Electra, but it is 
more complicated to use.  I STILL haven't gotten used to 
transferring a call to another extension or paging.  But, it 
does offer distinctive ring, auto-answer with message 
recording, and taking FAXes.

Jon