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== Getting started ==
This is the '''Telecommunications Inventory Wiki'''. It is primarily for the [[CMS:Connections Museum|Connections Museum]] inventory. Some information will only be editable by museum volunteers (like items in museum inventories) while other information (like general pages about item models) will be editable more widely.
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Latest revision as of 16:02, 12 February 2025

Welcome to the Telecommunications
Inventory Wiki

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the free telecom resource that volunteers can edit.
  • 5 active editors
  • 82 articles

Read a featured article...

Number Five Crossbar Switch
The Number Five Crossbar Switch (5XB) is from the Adams-2 exchange on Mercer Island. Its configuration in the museum is around one fourth of its original size. It is one of two known 5XB's to exist in the present day. (Full article...)

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Panel Switch

This is the Telecommunications Inventory Wiki. It is primarily for the Connections Museum inventory. Some information will only be editable by museum volunteers (like items in museum inventories) while other information (like general pages about item models) will be editable more widely.

Before creating new pages, please familiarize yourself with the wiki's namespaces.

Pages support data (under the "Edit data" tab) added in pre-set schemas to populate introductory paragraphs (because the introductory paragraph for certain things like different models of phone will all be very similar).