[VoIP] Introduction

[Dennis D Hock]

Welcome to the group.  This is a great group of folks who have all manner of equipment and knowledge.  The beauty of the Asterisk is the ability to let us converse and tie our respective machines together.
 
Once you get on net you will find it truly fascinating!
 
Welcome,
 
Dennis Hock
Casco, Michigan, USA
Cascow Telephone 1 269-4998

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To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches <voip at ckts.info>
From: Richard Lane <richardlane at westnet.com.au>
Sent by: voip-bounces at ckts.info
Date: 12/17/2007 09:53AM
Subject: [VoIP] Introduction

Hello

I've been on the list for about a week and thought I should introduce 
myself.

My name is Richard, I'm an Aussie and I am a self confessed nerd who has 
a interest in old stuff. I work in the IT industry on a normal day and 
have been playing with phones since I was 5. My father was a PMG/Telecom 
Australia tech for 30 years. Some of my fondest memories growing up were 
going to the local telephone exchange on a recall to check it out. I 
still remember the operators on the first floor, the battery room, the 
tone generators, and the racks and racks of gear. When I was about 8 I 
made a set of Christmas lights out of old uniselectors. I still have a 
lot of the old gear in boxes.

Anyway I think all the old step by step and ARK/ARM/ARF exchange gear is 
gone (I was told it was sold to countries like India) and replaced by 
the Ericsson AXE. I would really love to get my hands on a complete 
exchange to setup in the spare room and the shed when I build it but I 
would reckon my chances are low.

So I started to collect old telephones. So far I have a near complete 
set of AWA / STC 802 series telephones (the original colours & unique to 
Aus), one wallphone of the same vintage, and I have just bought a 
bellbox that the PMG converted to a dial phone.

I am keen to get my Asterisk hooked up to the system and bought myself a 
TDM400 card and have a suitable broadband connection. What flavours of 
Linux are people running. I am having all sorts of issues with Debian. I 
am a Linux hack, and my dayjob is normally looking after windoze 
machines, etc.

So G'day from me and I hope to speak to you on the network one day.

Cheers

Rich

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