[VoIP] RJ chatter was ages ago Channel Bank on Ebay [not mine] and E&M

[Steph Kerman]

A decade ago a friend of mine owned a Panasonic FAX machine which used a 
4P jack for the LINE connection.  Once the notoriously robust  latching 
key broke off the plug on the original telephone line cord supplied by 
Panasonic, no substitute cord was readily available.  I doubt this was 
an intentional ploy to sell line cords. Most likely Panasonic would not 
even have been able to supply the cord at the point when this happened. 
More likely (judging from my own personal dealings with Japanese telecom 
engineers), the person who chose this was working in a vacuum, was not 
aware of standards and assumed that a 4 position jack had sufficient 
capacity to do the job.  The solution was to make a custom cord.

So Panasonic, while their equipment is generally pretty good, is/are 
also a flagrant inventor of non-standards.

Steph

windmill wrote:
> On another note I have just been scouring a few online catalogues for 
> something else and have come across an RJ8 cable for a Panasonic
> telephone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> Dontcha just love standards! :-P
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