Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: wing@social.dec.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Prophetic ROLM Ad Message-ID:Date: 11 Aug 89 20:19:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 291, message 7 of 9 ->Sure enough, when I got into work on Tuesday, several extensions in the ->building, including mine, were making bizarre noises from the speakers in ->their bases: howls, fragments of various ringing tones, screeching noises, -> ->[Assorted Rolm problems described...] ->Just as I finished reading this article, _my_ Rolm-system extension, ->as well as several others nearby, started ringing continuously for ->no apparent reason. This has been happening several times a day for ->the last year, and Rolm is still unable to locate the problem ->in their switch. I suspect it is a design defect. Has anyone else ->on a Rolm PBX encountered this problem? Our whole building does it from time to time. The electronic extensions flash all their lights and they ring incessantly. The "flash-phones" ring too. After the ringing stops, we get "Error" on the display and a dead phone for a little while, then it starts acting like described above (howling, broken up ringing, etc...) Is there a company that makes a set that is compatible to Rolm's ETS-100A set? It is our understanding that Rolm does not make ETS-100's anymore. Ours are all, for lack of a better term, dying. We keep using "reconditioned" phones, but, this is not a long term solution. In 6 months I have has 12 phones. Both of the ETS-100 and ETS-100A variety. The Rolm serviceman has been here several times, but he seems to be fighting a losing battle. --> :) John <-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed above are strictly my own and not represented by my employer.