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Ed, what can you tell us about the location. (Once super upper class area of DC, or Alexandria, or?) Sounds like it might make a excellent candidate for a 'remote' of the Smithsonian!


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Originally posted by EV607797:
..., that jumper would have lasted another 60 years had Verizon not come in there trying to install FIOS. The customer promptly kicked them off of the premises once they broke it and they demanded that they get the system fixed. ...
Man, I'd like to have seen the look on the FIOS tech when they showed him to the equipment room. Probably something along the line of "What the F*** is that" :rofl:

Actually it shouldn't have been that hard to trace the CO pairs from the demark and flip them over to the FIOS ONT without disturbing any of the inside wiring.

Along with the question of equipment rental, are they getting ripped off for inside wire maintenance?

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John, it is installed in a posh residence in Upper Northwest, DC.

In the picture of the MDF, the white wires that you see flying all over the place were pieces of four-pair that the FIOS genius ran in his effort to send in the dial tone.

I seriously doubt if the customer is still paying any form of equipment rental. I remember about 18 years ago, AT&T sent out notices that they were abandoning billing and support for all mechanical PBX/key equipment. We were hired by many apartment and condo management companies to rip out the cord boards and secretarial answering equipment. I sure wish that I had held onto some of that stuff.


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Correction, it is a 755A PBX. 4 trunks, 20 stations.


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I have finally found what I need for my home! To heck with 1A2 lunchbox. THAT is what people should start demanding from their phone companies!

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THAT is what people should start demanding from their phone companies!

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When I worked for GTE we had some oddball accounts. One of them was at (one of) the home(s) of Adnan Kashoggi the (in)famous Saudi Arabian arms dealer (implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal).

Mr. Kashoggi had a LARGE duplex apartment in Manhattan that he was only at occasionally. It was fully staffed - butlers, maids, chauffeurs, and a switchboard operator.

He had a GTD-60 (with a console!) there that we maintained.

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Arthur I tought it was a 755 but it's been so long since I've seen one I forgot what they looked like. By the way just before I left Los Angeles I worked on an old wooden cordless board, tried to make a deal with owner to remove it when ever; but some Salesman got it. Oh well.

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Ed,

I am in complete awe. It must have been mindblowing when you got to the customer's home and saw this.

Again it is a reminder of what our country was once capable of from a manufacturing perspective. I'll bet this thing could keep running for another 60+ years without skipping a beat.

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Ed, I hope you left your business card by the equipment in case it goes into their estate when they pass on.


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Just out of curiosity, are those plug-in relays or are they directly soldered in place?

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