Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Demon Dialers (was: Speed Dialing) Message-ID: Date: 11 Jul 89 05:59:30 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 40 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 231, message 2 of 8 julian@bongo.uucp (julian macassey) writes: >(D. Stanwyck) writes: >> (TELECOM Moderator) says: >> >> The reason why (at my last residence) we chose to use the >> USWest supplied CO-based speed calling feature was the presence >> of several (>5) separate telephones in the house. Some telephones >> .....edited... > Did you consider the Demon Dialer by Zoom Telephonics? If you put one >of their diallers by the protector, every phone in the house can use the >same dialler which is controlled by the Touch Tone pad or Hook Switch >flashes. Plus it comes with a supercap that keeps the memory alive for 7 >hours if there is a power outage. Not only can any phone in the house dial >via a short sequence, you can store numbers that are dialled via built in >account codes i.e. selected common carriers or phone credit card numbers >that can be accessed during a call. Plus it will "Demon Dial", redial a busy >number. Great for calling houses with teenagers. And yes, you can store over >100 numbers in a Demon Dialer. > I've had one since the 1st week they were out. The concept is great, but the execution leaves a little to be desired. There is no true touchtone decoder- the custom Rockwell chip uses a zero-crossing detector and sone firmware. There is no way to read out the data, or to clone the data into a second unit for a second line (if my wife is on line 1, I have to grab the phone book and _look up_ (gasp) the number and use line 2). The last-number-dialed memory gets zapped by an incoming call (ring voltage?). The transformer (wall-plug-power-cube) is buzzy - we had to move the device into the basement as it kept my wife away when it was behind the curtain in the living room, adjcent to the bedroom (we have a quiet house). At the office, wiring the unit into the 1A2 keyphone was a grade AAA bitch. All in all, it's the only game in town for the tricks it does. But if somebody made one with a Mitel 8870 chip, and a bit better design, I'd toss the three I have in a minute. Maybe the next version will have a RS-232 port, and some firmware that will talk to a printing terminal. US Snail: Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov P.O. Box 1130 Also: WA6ILQ Arcadia, Ca. 91006-1130 #Include disclaimer.standard | The opinions above probably do not even