Hello, I work at an electronic components store. We sell everything from resistors to potentiometers to video correctors to ICs. I was cleaning the store, bringing old stuff into the basement and stuff. So I bring down a big ole box of ICs. We usually only stock 10 or 15 on the shelf in a zip-loc bag then the rest go into overstock. So while I am in the basement (a huge mess of broken electronics, obselete ICs, cable and lots of other treasure) I decide to poke around a little. I find a few things of interest... couple of 28.8 Kbps modems. When I found these I was like wow they need to clean this place up a litttle, some parallel port things with lots of little dip switches on it, and these two things. I didn't take the parallel port and modems (too old and boring,
My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.). I found this thing called a call guard. Here is a pic of it... The whole pic isn't visible unless you scroll over.
It looks like you plug the cord into the phone jack then the phone into the box. Then you need a key to be able to make calls. Pretty useless because you can just unplug the box from the wall and then plug the phone directly into the wall. But they stop you from doing that by using this little black thing on the cord that stops the plastic tab from moving. Do any of you know it when it is off if it blocks outgoing calls only or both. I would imagine only out going. That was cool, but that got boring quickly so I moved on in my "treasure hunt" and I found this strange circuit board with phone connectors on it.
It has a phone cord attatched, a switch, a regular sized phone jack on one end and a handset sized phone jack on the other end. It also has a DC jack. What is this thing, is it an inline recorder of some sort. Does anyone know what the switch is for... I haven't plugged it in, I don't know what is going to happen. I have three of these but I can get 20 more... What are they?
Just thought I would share my finds with you guys.
