Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Need Comkey 416 and Multiline Phone Information Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 02:01:39 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 237, Message 10 of 10 I just obtained a set of three AT&T Comkey 416 phones. Now it sinks in: How do I use them? Two have the power supplies, one doesn't. Do any of you know what they do and how to wire them? Much to my disappointment, they seem to require 50 wires to each phone. (A-ha! Now I see all the fuss about Merlin, Spirit, etc. They work over four or six wires!) I guess that the phones all wire in parallel. It handles one to four lines, but where do I connect the tip and rings? I also got two ivory push-button multi-line desk phones (the type with the six buttons along the bottom). Am I correct that their only value is to someone that needs a replacement? Does anybody want them? I have two wall phones without dials or ringers. What the heck am I to do with those? I can buy an external autodialer with a horrible membrane keypad and that'll make them DTMF, but it adds an external box. They're for sale, cheap! Thanks in advance. Jeffrey Jonas synsys!jeffj@uunet.uu.net jeffj@synsys.uucp