[VoIP] The Mighty Comdial

[Chad Perkins]

My (now) wife's first PC (An AT&T Globalyst) was in an apartment house fire; it 
ended up with an inch and a half of black and grey ugly, ash laden crudy water from 
the fire hoses floating around on the motherboard (it was on the floor)... After the fire 
was out she(we) had to evacuate the building immediately as it was condemned.  I 
grabbed the computer thinking I could save the hard drive.  

It sat in the basement here for a year when I before I decided to cabbage the 
memory out of it.  That's when it occurred to me: what entertainment it would be to 
plug it in and watch it blow up.  So I got a power cord, set it in the middle of the room, 
checked nearest fire extinguisher and plugged it in.  Beep, beep, beep!  To my 
amazement the BIOS was complaining because I didn't provide a keyboard!


On 24 Apr 2008 at 23:20, Greg Blakely wrote:

> Well, I'm impressed.
>  
> [snip].  I was astonished to see that, in the
> morning, every phone except one was fully functional, and, by noon,
> there was nothing at all that wasn't functioning.
> 
> So, 12 years old.  Is this descendant of the Stromberg Carlson
> telephone a "legacy" system yet?  Maybe not, but, as well as it has
> performed in a pinch, I have no doubt that it will one day pass
> whatever line exists that we use to designate a phone or phone system
> as a piece of history.
>