[Asterisk-Users] [OT] Oldest Telephone

[Scott Stingel]

Yes, I hereby withdraw my suggestion (see my earlier, 2nd post)!!

NOT advocating connecting a magneto to the telco circuit!  and only to a
digium card if you want to let off some steam.... (and probably fry the
card)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Greg Boehnlein
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:51 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] [OT] Oldest Telephone


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Scott Stingel wrote:

> Well, the nice things about telephones, in the US anyway, is that they are
> generally backward-compatible with each other.
> 
> Why not, as a first step, connect a normal telco line to L1 and L2, and
see
> if you get dial tone through the receiver?

I'm sure that your LEC wouldn't minx 100 Volts AC getting sent to their 
switch ! ;) If you plan on doing that, might as well dust off the archives 
and check out this backwoods, inbred cousin of 802.3af:

http://www.linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts/underground/boxes/blotto.html

What is scary is that I was around when this originally circulated the BBS 
scene, circa 84/85. ;)

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