Re: Do Panasonic KX-61610's (phone system) die after 16 years?

["BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you're not using a lot of features, consider the TMC Epic 4300
series. KSU less and all the bells & whistles.

 Don Wiss wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:59:49 -0500, "Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> If the OP like to play with his stuff,he should look at Asterisk, a
>> pbx system that do VOIP locally and have all the function of a big
>> pbx for a fraction of the cost
>>
>> he should take a look at
>>
>> http://www.asterisk.org/
>
> The OP does not plan to change the proprietary Panasonic phones that
> he has. Doing so would double the cost. As for the comment about
> getting more functionality, the current system has way more features
> than I'd ever use. What it does lack is caller ID passthrough. Caller
> ID came out right after I installed the unit. And my unit is not
> upgradeable. I checked.
>
> I tried to find out what the current Panasonic model is. Panasonic
> sticks the label Easa-Phone on all their telephone products, making
> searching on that practically useless.
>
> I'm looking at eBay now. I found a used Panasonic KX-TA624 phone
> system. In the description I find "there was some bad phone ports."
> Hmm...
>
> Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).