Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cc100aa%prism@gatech.edu (Ray Spalding) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine Interrupter Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 11:12:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 18 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 260, message 6 of 8 The summer '89 catalog for DAK Industries Inc. lists a device that sounds identical to the one described previously as offered by Sharper Image. The copy claims that picking up any extension will cut your answering machine off. In an interesting twist, it points out that you could install one of these devices on each extension phone. Then, whenever your fax or modem is on line, every other extension is automatically dead, preventing a communications interruption by someone picking up a phone. Order No. 5135, $9.90 + $2 P&H, from DAK, 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park, CA 91304. Credit card orders: 1-800-DAK-0800. Disclaimer: I have no connection with DAK. Caveat emptor. -- Ray Spalding Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!cc100aa Internet: cc100aa@prism.gatech.edu