[Asterisk-Users] [OT] Oldest Telephone

[Rich Adamson]

> > 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. ;)

Oh yah!!! And I was around when our telephone number was "79M" and the 
operator had to complete every call (and she was my Sunday School teacher too)!

:)