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KLD, we were working on a GTE OMNI (OMG) at AFI. They had one OMNI on Eisenhower and 1 OMNI on Fort Leavenworth. Linked with a T1. My very 1st T1. Didn't know a thing about it, but I was the 1 that figured out that the wiring inside the cabinet on the Fort was shorted! (Almost broke my arm, patting myself on the back!) Some idiot at the factory wire-wrapped the center conductor of the RX cable right on top of the outer braid. Discovered that about 2AM. Man was that a long night! Now he's in IN and I'm in NC. Go figure. And don't ask about the cheerleader outfit, I was the only 1 that could get into it, unfortunately. John C.

I remember that! I also remember that Fujitsu increased the clocking frequency of the cards which resulted in a power supply failure at the main site. The architecture was innovative, too! T-1 = 24 channels. Number of users at the Ft. Leavenworth offices = 24. Number of staff at said office = 24.
I happened across an old Omni S3 that was out of service in an old high school. The thing was powered down and had been for years. Poor thing looked like an abandoned puppy but there are some things my wife won`t EVEN let me bring home!

I recall we only had 1 guy that had been to school, and he was lost, because the factory said 'we can make it do that' to every ? AFI asked. BUT they either couldn't or wouldn't! Man was I glad to find that job in Salina. They kept looking at me like I needed to take some books home and start reading. I already had my RAM jammed with all the different stuff they sold. And I've got some OLD Mitel stashed in the garage. 10/20/100/200, 1 of each, in operating condition! I'd kinda like to find a SUPER 10, but money is an awful thing to waste!

Remember all of those Residence Inn locations with the Mitel Sx 200 - 213 or 216 Generic/ Fast forward to 1987 and you find yours truly trying to pull his head out of his ass trying to remember how to add 877,888 toll free codes. I eventually figured it out. SX 50 is popular with the eastern indian innkeeper type around here too.
Yeah I remember poor old Terry D. sweatin it while Colonel Orondorf was reading the riot act. Yeah, at one time we were selling both sides of the TIE product line, the Thompson CSF Opus, ITT 701, 801 and their 1A2 line, Mitel, and any other derelict that someone was too cheap to replace. Those were the days.

Maybe we need to take old home week off the board, I have a feeling that not everybody wants to hear/see more. But, speaking of Opus, ITT took it over, called it a 56/136 if I recall correctly and it was STILL the MOST user antagonistic system I ever dealt with! So, does anybody else have some stories to tell, or should we take this private and quit boring the rest of you'all. Man, I'm picking up that Southern talkin'. John C.