Two Phone Lines?

[Otto Vondrak]

The last time I was in Rochester, someone asked me about the wires sticking out by the bulletin board that looked like they could have been another phone line.

When we first got control of A420, there were two phone jacks, one over by where the engine terminal is now (the jack was relocated years ago), and one over by the right edge of the bulletin board.

The club room used to be the yearbook office, which had two phone lines, one "editorial" line, and one strictly for ad sales. We use the old editorial line as our number, the advertising line was disconnected in 1997. That is the "spare" jack over by the bulletin board.

The wires sticking out up near the ceiling? We're not sure. Tom and I noticed that when we both repainted the room from depressing deep blue to white back in the summer of 1998. We both guessed it was a commuication line for a long-disconnected alarm system. We've never found out for sure, but either way, it's probably just best ignored.

-otto-

[Matt K Dettman]

I'm wondering what it would take to remove some of the unused wiring in A420. I know you pointed out some jct boxes and wiring that isn't used any more and also that awfully annoying right angle "box" when go up into the tower. It's a great way to puncture one's skull if hit hard enough.

[Joe Nugent]

that awfully annoying right angle "box" when go up into the tower. It's a great way to puncture one's skull if hit hard enough.

Unfortunately, that duct is there to stay. We used to have a foam pad on it to keep people from hurting themselves... I'll see if I can find it.

Luckily, I'm short enough to be able to walk underneath it.

-Joe

[boblenon]

The box on the bulliten board has to two jacks If i recall. One is for phone - maybe active... who knows. The one labled B is a "B Jack" dates back for the internet... ;)

All you underclassmen would not know ... probably in diappers :)

[Otto Vondrak]

HAha..yes, techically every phone jack had two ports- A-jack was telephone, B-jack was data. If I remember correctly it was some sort of asynchronous connection at a blazing 3600 bps... (somehow I got it to work with my Mac's 8-pin serial port) all to log into a command-line terminal emulator (I think they still had VAX dumb terminals everywhere, too). when they figured out how to give some of us a PPP connection through the B-jack, it was like having Ethernet. This was back in the dank dark days of 1995. I dont think they started wiring the dorms for Ethernet until about 1997 or 1998? This was a big deal since not all the dorms had ACTIVE B-jack. Only Ellingson and one other...

damn, those were the days.

-old fart-

[John Coughlan]

Let's start crossing some wires and see who shows up or what blows up! That should tell us real quick what goes to what and to whom!

[Big John Sommer]

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN TO ME....

LETS SEE... TOUCH WHITE TO BLACK AND......

[matt glogowski]

SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN TO ME....

LETS SEE... TOUCH WHITE TO BLACK AND......

Ok TOUCH WHITE TO BLACK TO GREEN TO RED AND