Aastra

POTD: Aastra 390 PowerTouch

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Via Joe the UCX Guy from 2016, if memory serves me.

It’s alive and well. This is an older telset from October 22nd, 2002. Private label from Shoreline Communications that would become ShoreTel that in full circle merged with Mitel just over a year ago whom of which also acquired Aastra a few years back.

Go ahead and make your head spin as I still can’t get over how Polycom and Plantronics tied the knot and a distro company buying the source code (Sagnoma/Free PBX> Digium/Asterisk.) These were just within year to date mergers.

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Video: Nortel Meridian M9617 POTS Telephone

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Thanks to Joe the UCX Guy who contacted me offline to offer one of his two sets he had. According to his post, “A friend sent me this set, and it works, although it’s a bit strange, the volume on the handset is really low on both lines.  Hands free is loud and clear but the handset is quite low volume.”

These sets were basically NOS or perhaps “New Old Stock” because he had opened them recently.

He tried to install the app on a  Windows 10 PC to no avail. Well there is such thing as virtualization and running older operating systems.

This video features the unboxing. The next video I’m trying to shoot for tomorrow, the 19th, where I will literally try to install the application per to Nortels specifications (I’ll try it on NT Workstation 4, with 8MB ram, 10MB harddisk and USB, TAPI, and all the other fun stuff for it to work and run it on Fusion on my Mac mini. I will say it will sure be fun to try!)

Without forgetting, Thank You!