… is a telephony appliance of the x86_32(i586) architecture assumingly produced in the early years of the 2000 millenium by JUMPtec ¹⁾. It is unknown to me how many of these devices where produced and sold. Anyway I can tell that the architecture design of this machine is leads to a very sophisticated platform for industry use. The distributor PDS is responsible for the software lineup on this machine, that includes a LINUX kernel from the 2.2 series on a 'debian'-ish system using hylafax to do the actual work. Its accompanied by some special homebrewn software from PDS that drives platform-specific hardware (mainly the LED-bar on the front).

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The “PDS/OSIcom office box” is a mysterious system. On the net, information about this machine is very rare. Reliable source of information is available neither on the manufacturer, nor on the machine itself. On one hand, the name suggests small office use of this system. On the other, 3 ISDN BRI for a FAX machine (allowing a total of 6 simultanous FAXes) suggests medium office use.

The machine case is a custom proprietary measured metal box. The only standard measured factors on the case are the slots for expansion and base board as well as the floppy drive cutout. The pictures probably tell a lot more about that machine than any description else would.

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Front of unit
The front of the unit is very clean. There is just the nametag in the upper left corner and the 10-LED bargraph in the upper right, there is nothing on the unit. On the left side of the unit the floppy drive is available. The sticker below the nametag reads '192.168.10.18' and has my name on it.
Back of unit
The back of the unit keeps all the plugs and the power switch.
IO-Panel of unit
ALL external interfaces of this machine are provided by additional hardware. Without the daughtercard and the ISDN interfaces, there is just the power plug
Internals

ISA Daughtercard front

ISA Daughtercard back

Power supply

ISDN Board front

ISDN Board back

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