[VoIP] Seattle Museum?

Steph Kerman stfkerman at jps.net
Fri May 9 20:08:06 CDT 2008


Submitted for your consideration:

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John R. Covert wrote:
> I just got off the phone with Don Ostrand, Curator of the Seattle
> museum, one of the great museums of switching equipment, with an
> actual working panel office and a large 5XB.
>
> The purpose of my call was to arrange a special evening visit during
> the Asterisk Boot Camp I expect to teach in Seattle 11-15 June.
>
> But I also talked to him about getting the museum connected to
> CNET. He sounded interested, and I sent him to the ckts website
> to have a look-see. There is already a DSL connection into the
> museum building, so it's just a matter of getting them set up
> with an Asterisk box and some sort of channel bank. Their switches
> only operate during museum hours on Tuesdays, but they'd still be
> a wonderful addition to the network.
>
> /john


Mad Mark wrote:
> I believe it's MOTAT in New Zealand that is only open on Tuesdays...
>
> +64 9 31050 - MOTAT Workshop Phone - People only in the workshop 
> 10:00am - 5:00pm NZ time on Tuesdays
>
> Steph wrote:
>> I think I remember hearing that the * will only be working on Tuesdays
>> when the museum is attended and the equipment is powered up.
>>
>> Steph
>>
>> Doug Alderdice wrote:
>>> I believe Seattle has only their Asterisk tandem up and running. I 
>>> dialed
>>> into them by mistake the other day trying to dial one of my own numbers
>>> (Motorola VT1002 not quite getting one of my AE40s!). It was an 832
>>> exchange number I got through to; I was trying one of my 833
>>> numbers. There was a lengthy announcement that I reached about the 
>>> Seattle
>>> museum. I just tried an 832-XXXX number now and got nothing, as if 
>>> their
>>> system is offline. There was a list of exchanges given in the
>>> announcement, but I don't recall any of them now.
>>>
>>> Doug.
>>>
>>> At 12:30 PM 5/9/2008 -0700, Chuck wrote:
>>>
>>>> So far I have heard back from one person who told me that the
>>>> Seattle Museum does indeed have its CNET access up and running.
>>>>
>>>> I then had a look at the CNET directory to try and find the access
>>>> numbers to the museum. No luck. I can't find them.
>>>>
>>>> Next question: What are the numbers to the Seattle Museum?
>>>>
>>>> Chuck
>


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