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From: decwrl!apple!well.sf.ca.us!well!stv@uunet.uu.net (Steve Vance)
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Subject: Need Help Finding NEC Telco Equipment
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Date: 30 Aug 90 04:03:35 GMT
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A friend of mine has a NEC telephone system in his office.  It has the
ability to run special phones on ten desks.  Each of these special
phones has five telephone lines on it, twenty buttons for
frequently-called numbers, a hold button, etc.  All this thru one pair
of wires back to the big NEC box in the basement, which connects to
the five trunk lines.

When the system was installed about five years ago, they only
installed eight of the maximum ten stations.  Now they want to add the
remaining two stations, but they are having a hard time finding the
special "desk station" phones anywhere.

The dealer that sold them the system can "order them from Japan" at
about $600 each.  Of course, the dealer is less interested in doing
that than selling them a whole new whiz-bang phone system, for mucho
bucks.

Does anyone know where I can buy a couple of these desk stations
cheaply, OR know if there is a "clone" or "compatible" unit that can
be substituted?  The telephone system is called the "NEC Electra 616".
The only markings on the bottom of the desk station (besides date and
serial number) are "ET-6-1".