…”anachronism”

Nul points to anyone who actually tries that one, I’m being figurative. Looks like this is the year for dusting off old technologies with a new lease of life, including:

- finding that Nokia 6310i with the busted keypad, because it plugs straight into the phone integration in my new-ish car (and finding it’s more responsive than my 2007 model Motorola phone)

- actually having to solder up a male/male 9-pin straight through serial cable (by destroying a couple of crossover leads) and then finding the only lappy which actually possesses a workable serial port is a Toshiba Tecra 8000, circa 1999. Naturally, despite being on a shelf at Schloss Cassidy for at least half a decade, it just starts up and whacks on into Hyperterminal (private edition of course, off a PC Pro cover CD…) without a murmur. The effort was worth it, to get into an HP 9308 enterprise backbone switch…

- snaffling a BT ISDN line that everyone forgot after they sent a DASS conversion letter. Once that is tested and working it will be fed into a small VOIP PBX system: I know of six ISDN lines, which BT were quite sure they could stop bothering with, which have been sharply re-commissioned for exactly this purpose for small biz VOIP. Watch out for Ebay prices on old EICON DIVA cards rising steeply…