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Same as Jim Baldwin, ran into an old customer who still has an ITT 401 in service!!! Needed some changes after 20+ years! Manual? Yes, only took two days of digging in storage....

John, my wife doesn't "nag"....she "suggests" so I have two storage units.... :rofl:

Ken -

What was the ITT 401? I did a quick google and it turned up some hits but nothing definitive. I'm assuming no typo there and it's not a 501 you're talking about...

And we just got someone in "other systems" requesting a Fujitsu 9600 manual. I threw out the hard copies. I could have sworn I kept the CD though. Oh well.


Sam

Sam,

The ITT 401 Aries was a two wire electronic 6X16 key system. A lot of features for the time and competition. They were in the mid-80s when everyone had a "new" system out there. They replaced the ITT 701 systems. Later they became the Aries Digital, little brother of the Ion- type. That was about the time ITT went to dealer distribution and cut us little guys out of the loop. Yes, I still had the manual. Oh, well............. :shrug:

Ken -

So 20-25 years later and it's still plugging along! Not bad.

The last ITT Key systems I remember (and worked on!) were the 76A and the 36A. And 1A2, of course.

Sam

15 years ago, as the ops mgr., I got stuck with documenting, upgrading, and updating the manuals we used. Then disposing of excess/obsolete manuals. Of course, at theat time there were several manual companies in the biz, and I sent a list of everything to our favorite. He bought it all, even the "3 and one-half feet of Horizon manuals, user guides and site specific paperwork! He said he would probably regret the Horizon stuff, but the description made it irresistable! Heck he got 18 pristine sets of Mitel SX50 and a dozen sets of 200d and lite manuals. Bunch of Iwatsu and TIE stuff. Even some NEC2400 stuff. John C.

I've got a few Definity, AUDIX, Magix and Legend manuals sitting around still in their original shrink wrap. It's especially hard to justify their existance as Avaya continues to host PDF versions on their website.

For telco manuals that I don't already own--plus a few odds and other ends--I sometimes reference the manual bible website". If you go up to the root directory, you'll see that there are other goodies about pinhole cameras, the Atari 2600 and other crazy things.

Nice site TIm! :thumb:

Thanks,

Sam

Great site! Thanks for sharing. That will come in very handy.

Excellent site! And many thanks to busyfonman for some of his manuals.

Jack

I've got a boat load of manuals here that I never use..If anyone's looking for one send me a pm and it's yours for the shipping.