Hardware, Getting Started

I am green to this whole process and was wondering if someone could assist me in determining minimum requirements for getting started with Asterisk. I would loke to know what sort of card, pc, telephones, software I will need to run.

Also can I mix nortel and nec phones? Or am I tottally off base?

Thanks

Have a read of this book, it will answer your questions about getting started, among other things:

voip-info.org/wiki/view/Aste … +Telephony