I have been offered an IBM/ROLM phone mail system. I'm curious if it's something standard that's been put into use as a phone mail system, or if it's some weird proprietary thing. It's about 4 feet high, and about 4' x 3' or so. It runs on 220VAC at what appears to be many amps. Inside (the parts I could see - it's still in use at the moment) were several cards in slots, a physically large hard drive, a monster power supply, a tape drive, and some other bits. What I could see was: Priam P/N 330352 hard drive ROLM 40311 Phone Mail System Voice Compression I/O Card 8 Channel Voice Card AP 4MB RAM 41508 System Processor II 41002 Unless it's to go to the junkyard, I need to let them know by Friday (tomorrow) sometime. The hard drive is making "bad bearing" noises, and the voice mail has started to "stutter". They found a newer box to replace it that's about the size of a bread box for less than a refurb hard drive would cost. I'm not sure what I'd do with it, but if it's got anything useful in it, I'd try to salvage it for someone else, if they can arrange shipping. Bill Richman

I have been offered an IBM/ROLM phone mail system. I'm curious if it's something standard that's been put into use as a phone mail system, or if it's some weird proprietary thing.