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

[Don Wiss <donwiss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

But does it use my four existing Panasonic phone sets? As I wrote I see no
reason to buy new ones. And is it hybrid? As I wrote it must be.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:46:43 -1000, "BruceR" <razrbruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>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).
>