[GreenKeys] OT question for the telephone guys

[Peter Gottlieb]

I have spotted many in dumpsters when companies move out.  Most of them 
lately are digital though.  If there is a commercial landlord in your 
area see if you can reach someone who will listen to you and possibly 
let you NEATLY remove an old system if you offer to sweep up or 
something.  I've heard from friends who've gotten some amazing stuff 
that way even if it  cost a couple days of labor. 

The other advice about companies who upgrade systems is good, but they 
usually throw such things out on the spot, so you have to let them know 
to look out for you and offer them something for their efforts.

Peter


H. Kurth Bemis wrote:
> I might ask around a few IT or Telephone system places...
>
> Many companies are replacing their older analog/digital/hybrid and
> moving to VoIP based systems.  It's possible that you could salvage one
> from the "Green Monster" (dumpster)
>
> ~k
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 14:14 -0600, Jim Haynes wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, kf6pqt wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Gil mentioned an analog PBX recently. Where can I learn more about
>>> this thing, (or similar) and where can I find one for free, or super
>>> cheap?
>>>       
>> I don't know - ebay maybe.
>>
>> But you might want to look at asterisk, which is free PBX software
>> that runs on a PC under Linux, requires purchasing only the hardware
>> that connects the PC to the telephone lines.
>>
>>
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