Paladin Roaming

Kiss KTS goodbye

At one time the 2nd floor of the Hawthorne C.O. was a data test center with nearly 1000 telephone lines on a rather large KTS. A couple of months ago I pulled the plugs on the last of the power supplies. Over the next couple of weeks I re-wired those few phones that had been actually using the KTS. A month ago I pulled all of the line cards, and fixed the one phone that still had it's dial tone going through the depowered card -- my terminal room phone! Week before last I took out the last swinggate, pulled the last of the 75 pair cables going to the RedBoards. This past week I pulled all of the dial tone off the CO leads of the RedBoards, those that were in use being wired directly to the phones, the other hundred of so line traced back to the incoming House Cable, LVT'd to get the number, and placed on The List to be sent in for disconnect orders.

With the last of the wires off, we get to remove the backboards that get to retire after 30 or so years of service.