I want to say about 12 years ago, I helped infoage rescue a bunch of telephone gear, including a diagnostic rack from a 1ESS. Does that still exist somewhere?
I thought I heard someone say someone donated a DMS-100 switch to Infoage as well? I seem to recall someone said at one time there was going to be a telcom museum at infoage but it dissolved? - Ethan
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 1:09 PM Devin Heitmueller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:49 PM Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:
It's the mountaintop! I've owned a Lucent Merlin Legend with Audix (several generations) systems and have a Parner or two (Thanks Jason!) but there is nothing more legendary than the 5ESS. The legend from Phrack magazine articles in the 90s. Plus if this is the window to do it, it's the window to do it if they are really heading to the scrappers.
That's cool. If you want to have a 5ESS so you can say you have a 5ESS, then I've got no problem with that. If it was just because you wanted *something* that met the requirement of allowing you to host a bunch of analog telco gear, then there are easier ways to go.
Cheers, Devin