Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Interrupter Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 89 14:51:05 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Bob Clements Lines: 26 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 254, message 4 of 6 In article John DeArmond writes: |In article glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen |M.Marianko) writes: |>Age old answering machine problem: forget to turn off answering machine |>Anyone hear of any |>such add-on gizmo to go in-line with the answering machine and the |>telco jack? Seems doable... |I saw just such a gizmo Friday in either The Sharper Image or Brookstone. |It looked like one of these little 1-to-2 outlet splitters you can get |at radio shack except it had a couple of LEDs in it. you hook your |extention phone and answering machine in thru this thing. When you |pick up, the answering machine is cut off. Works only for that |phone, though. |john I answered Glen directly in email, but I'll respond to John's answer since it was posted: If the one you saw is the same one as in the Fordham Scope catalog, which it sounds like from the physical description, then John's last sentence is incorrect. It works from any phone on the pair, even if it is NOT fed through the gizmo. Amazing for a $7.95 gizmo, but true. Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com