#RetroLab

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^Gety@hive.institute
2025-06-24

I know I asked this a while back, but I'm stubbornly going to keep at it.

There are more than a few entities on fedi that are into standing up old phone networks, ranging from military field comms, business PBXes, even homelab ESS implementations.

But I can't find a dedicated hashtag for the life of me, so I'm going to pick one and run with it.

#OtherNetworks is a great catch-all for the more esoteric, #RetroLab is broad but you get the idea, and #HomeLab is *really* broad.

#Boost maybe? ❤️

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^Gety@hive.institute
2025-06-23

On the other hand, single- and dual- card enclosures for the modern high-density stuff don't exist. Not like they're not available on the market -- they were never made. That would be sorta silly for a high-density product.

There could be a market* for that.

And by market* I mean a very small number of #retrolab #othernetworks #phone nerds who might like to 3D print this shit or something.

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^Gety@hive.institute
2025-06-23

Woke up this morning feeling awful; took a sick day.

Now trawling through equipment listings for the #RetroLab. Really want to get the ISDN & T1 plant properly operational, and looking through #Adtran part numbers is very frustrating.

They're internally consistent but also completely opaque!

Ety, Ringer of Bells ^Gety@hive.institute
2025-01-31

Spent some time fighting the Tandberg C60 to play nicely with #asterisk tonight, but happy to report that we got there.

It really _really_ wants to use H323, y'all, and saving certain SIP parameters via the web interface is bugged to hell (like auth?) -- you've got to jump into the CLI and set the parameters manually.

Made tweaks to codec lists on device and pbx, and we have g.722+h263p SIP calls working.

Wrapped it up with a nice custom wallpaper bow.

#RetroNetworking #RetroLab #Telephony

A picture of a computer display on my cluttered desk displaying the OSD of a Tandberg C60.

The wallpaper is bright and dark reds, with abstract geometric lines, and has the text "SOUTH CENTRAL MCH NETWORK SERVICES" in the middle.

Along the top is an information bar that reads "MCH TelePresence Node", with a Cisco logo, and the current time and date.
Ety, Ringer of Bells ^Gety@hive.institute
2025-01-18

Heya internet, I'm in search of tags and accounts of people playing around with:

* older enterprise networking gear
* telephony gear and labs, particularly CO equipment

Seems like the kind of thing one should be able to find on Fedi :-)

#telephony #homelab #retrolab #retro #boost

Nicola Avanzina103
2024-07-04

and this is my /office ! morning I restoring a 1084s ntsc monitor

2023-11-09

Klasse, dass es mit dem Poster zu #RetroLab endlich auch das Thema #Retrocomputing auf die Agenda des Internationalen Symposiums für #Informationswissenschaft geschafft hat.
#ISI2023-PosterSession

Foto zweier Computer aus dem Jahr 1977: Commodore PET 2001 sowie Apple II

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