On Tuesday 05 August 2008 22:52, James Fogg wrote:
I find almost anything old to be interesting. Lately
I've been
looking at old vacuum tube intercoms (the kind with art deco cases).
What make? I'll bet I have manuals for some of that stuff...
I like Rauland and Bogen, the Bakelite years. I'm watching eBay to see
what comes up.
Have a look here, then:
http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/manuals.html
and search on either of those brand names. :-)
Lately I'm spending a lot of time in the barn with
some new horses and
goats. I don't want to run a PBX extension to the barn, but an intercom
is appealing. A lightning strike on a PBX extension would ruin my day. A
tube type intercom is more likely to survive, especially a wireless one
(carrier current I think is what they called that wireless method using
power lines). Also, an intercom would let me monitor audio in the barn
to see if everyone is getting along well in my absence.
I've often had similar thoughts about these teenagers that keep coming around
here to keep my two oldest granddaughters company. (Evil grin :-)
My other choice is a pair of VoIP capable routers and
an 802.11 wireless
bridge in the barn. I'll use the routers in an OPX configuration to the
PBX.
That's a bit much, I'd say. Unless you just happen to have a bunch of that
sort of thing already hanging around, which I don't.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin