[sdiy] Re: WAY OT humour - New synth DIY site ?

[Grant Richter]

I knew a software engineer who programmed a big relay array to play tunes -
sort of. Just clicking but what a rhythm box! You could recognize "Shave and
a haircut" and "Happy Birthday".

Boredom does strange things to people on their lunch hour....

HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog phone to T1).
Each channel had 6 
Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for remote testing). That's 4032 per rack. The
average central 
office had 64 racks or 258,048 relays.


Funny, I thought these were usually used in outside plant enclosures, the 5
foot wide white boxes, for doing pair gain out miles away from the CO
instead of running lots of copper.

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You need them at *both ends* :)
 
SLC-96 and DMS-100 are typical pair-gain channel banks.
 
Paul S.
 



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