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This is one of 2 I brought back.

wow!

I love the IN WATS and OUT WATS. It shows its age!

And every Omega III phone I ever saw had a stick-on paper label with extension numbers stuck on the face plate...

i recognized a couple names myself.

Speaking of labels - one of the most time consuming things about replacing one of these is transferring the label on each and every key. I think the whole key can be pulled off rather than just the clear cover. If I recall the labels are adhered onto the key. I'm going to try taking the entire key off when I put together a replacement that amazingly we still stock.

Yes re: the WATS lines! I think this system was installed in 1983. I can't imagine seeing Grandstream or Yealink phones at the customer's site any time soon. Maybe 24 button Gen 2 phones from an Adix.

I just read this post, it's a tour of telecom history. Story could apply to so many older systems. Good story

In wats out wats brings back memories of the phone dialers installed at the MDF's

Are you talking about those Mitel M-1 smart dialers that you could program to pick you long distance carrier?
Pull out your trusty RS-232 cable!

Rather than start another thread I thought I'd reply to this. Once again the customer could not connect - but for about a month so I went on site. I connected my PC to their network in a spare port in a switch next to the ECS cabinet. I was able to connect.

I then went to the contact's office - disconnected the network cable from the network docking station, plugged it into my PC. Again was able to connect. I gave the customer the installer file for the Icon programmer. She removed the old one and re-installed - same. Even installed it on a Windows 7 (all other PCs mentioned here were Windows 10) PC that's accesses via remote desktop. It has their timeclock software and other things that don't routinely need to be accessed. Still - no connection with that.

I then showed the customer how she can connect to LAN1 at the ECS and left an ethernet cord connected since it's on top of kitchen cabinets (an awful setup with the MDF in as access door in the customer waiting are.. once had to ask a customer to please move so I could get to it).

I wonder then - since it's not their network what in the world could be restricting access? I've heard of .dll files being involved, but I'd assume they would be re-written/corrected with the new install.

This will hopefully get them by until September until they move to a new building - of course with a new VoIP system not installed by us. Not unexpected as we didn't install the system, the company that did likely doesn't exist and the VoIP vendor doesn't know Iwatsu.