New job, and I have to use my Dialgizmo and rotary to keep the standard.

[dsk]

  Changed school (I'm a teacher) and we are several teacher in the same office sharing one line.
so I splitted the line and made a "privacy filter" in the split by putting a quadrac http://tinyurl.com/2vyfx5o in series with each phone. Then I putted on a relatively new 1967 model telephone on my desk.  
I could receive but...not call out    Digging out the Dialgizmo  some adapters and here we go  
Everything working. great, and my new colleagues are impressed. Thay may say: "I can remember we had one like that" etc.




dsk

[bingster]

Even in a modern setting, that phone still looks appropriate.  Very nice!

[bellsystemproperty]

I like the blue color it has. I have a WE 554 in a similar color, but there aren't that many rotary phones in blue. I don't think any purple ones were ever made, were they?

[Kenny C]

not that i know of

[bingster]

Automatic Electric had a color called "Orchid" in the 1920s, '30s and '40s.  I think this picture is a bit darker than the actual color, which was closer to lavender.

[dsk]

It is only made 16,000 telephones of this type, in this color.

I'm still wondering if I should put in an older one, what do you think?

dsk

[Kenny C]

in my opinion the older the better

[dsk]

It seems like the ringeing frequency is 50Hz My 1953 doesent ring.

I'm testing wit som more gadgets, Wireless Phone Jacks  http://tinyurl.com/2v4g56u and dialgizmo.   Just testing it! but I hope this will do.   

Maybe I have to get one of you to hunt down an old telephone with a 50Hz ringer?

Whats the best, the black or the turquoise one? 

dsk

[bingster]

I vote for turquoise.  It's really a very nice color.

[Kenny C]

i like the black

[dsk]

Now it has gone even worse
We have moved into a temporarily location for 1 year, (great locations  ) and what did pop up on my desk?
A Cisco IP Phone 7911  
The telco delivers thees pre-programmed, and are not willing to let me fettle, so now I need help to hack out the info of this phone, and be able to set up a PAP2 to get a real phone working.

All hints, links and ideas are welcome.
I'm willing to be a criminal and hack this unit to get real telephone    (Since NSA probably scans even this, I' open for suggestions even from them ) By the way, it seems like I've been a criminal for years, because it is not OK to take a telephone, or other useful things from a dumpster.  Luckily for me it is not punished to protect other peoples belongings from being damaged. So maybe, I'm not that criminal.  

dsk

[Owain]

Now it has gone even worse
We have moved into a temporarily location for 1 year, (great locations  ) and what did pop up on my desk?
A Cisco IP Phone 7911  
The telco delivers thees pre-programmed, and are not willing to let me fettle, so now I need help to hack out the info of this phone, and be able to set up a PAP2 to get a real phone working.

Bad news is that
(a) these phones are probably locked down in a corporate setting
(b) they probably use proprietary Cisco protocols and the PAP2 talks standard SIP
(c) the settings may not be stored in the phone's user menus but downloaded whenever the phone's plugged in using an autoprovisioning script.

Easiest may be to get the audio out of the Cisco handset port and feed it into the heritage phone transmitter and receiver bypassing the phone circuitry.

Cisco adapter circuit suggestion here
http://www.einhorn-net.de/headset/index_e.html

Use an electret or moving coil transmitter as a replacement for the carbon in the phone.

[McHeath]

That's too bad that they have locked out your rotary.  I keep a WE 500, 1954, on my desk at school.  Interestingly it works well on the internal system, which even reads the pulse commands and gives me the appropriate touch tone requests.