19 Sep
2019
19 Sep
'19
7:52 p.m.
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