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Merlin Phones (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-05 21:14:50
Imported:
2026-06

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I should've waited one day to film that last video, the Merlin phones have started to show up. Notice one branded Lucent, the Merlin line had a very long lifespan. The AT&T branded one went out of warranty in 1986. I'm happy to have two of the metal stands, my understanding is they eventually switched to plastic.

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Alex Munoz

This will be an exciting video. I wonder if you’ll be able to hook up the line-in on the Merlin to the CUCME. It’s my poor understanding that CUCME can do analog phones, and non Cisco phones

Dextrose

Excited about all this phone content. Just started a build out myself and this content is giving me so many ideas about ordering junk off eBay to make my wife unhappy.

clabretro

I'd eventually like to merge those two — initially I'll just do a really simple setup with a 2600 or something to let a "traditional" POTS phone call into the Merlin and vice versa though.

clabretro

Oh yeah wife has been impressed when I say "another phone" each time a box shows up.

andyg8888

Are these still Bakelite or did they switch to real plastic by the time these beasts launched?

John Bailey

I used a Merlin phone system for the first 4 years of my time at my employer. It seems to be a newer and much more capable one, it supported 16 analog lines plus had a T1 module for 23 more call paths. We also had well north of 50 phones connected to the system and the voicemail was handled by a DOS PC with a 6-line modem card and the Merlin software. It's long gone now and was replaced by a ShoreTel VoIP system. The phones were all plastic and had a 2 or 3 line LCD with 8 line buttons and the usual feature buttons. I do not miss that system 😂

clabretro

not sure! I'll have to look into that

Leo Simmons

Awh man so cool, ever thought of getting a Nortel BCM and running some older nortel phones?

Leo Simmons

CME as the official ClabRetro ISP POTS server?