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From: friedl@mtndew.tustin.ca.us (Steve Friedl)
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Subject: Need Info on In-House Phone Systems
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Date: 11 Sep 90 04:43:03 GMT
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Hi Telecomsters,

     A year ago, our prayers were answered when we found the Proctor
phone demonstrator, which lets me do testing of our fax modem products
without having to get regular phone lines.  Up to four devices sit on
this box, and they can all dial each other.  It saved my sanity.

     The problem is that I now need more than this.  I would love some
kind of box that would let me use a intercom mode for internal
testing, plus provide bidirectional access to real outside lines.  I
have four or so fax modems hooked up here, plus a fax machine or two,
and it drives me nuts as I keep having to swap phone lines around to
make this or that talk to each other.  I really do not want to buy
real phone lines for everything.

     Has anybody got any ideas here?  I have heard people speak of the
low-end Panasonic phone systems (which might be just the ticket), but
I really don't know anything about them.


Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / Fax+Drugs+RockNroll / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy
+1 714 544 6561  / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US  / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl