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From: emuroga@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Phone Ring Detection
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Date: 28 Aug 89 05:12:00 GMT
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/* Written  5:51 pm  Aug 26, 1989 by nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
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Does anyone know of an application/cdev/INIT/DA/whatever which will either
inverse the menu bar or somehow flash the screen when the phone rings?  I
have this habit of programming or writing while listening to deafening
music through headphones, so I can't hear the phone ring.  I can see it
using a terminal emulation application, but the little "RING" messages
I don't see.  Something that possibly deaf people may use could be helpful.

I have two Macs networked side-by-side, so it doesn't have to run in the
background.  I sure would appreciate any ideas on how to get a visual
response to phone ringing that I could notice out of the corner of my eye.
I don't really want to write one; anything already available would be
best.  Thanks for any help.

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Attach plastic explosive to the phone ringer leads....

 ...ok, not such a good idea..;-) I have seen phones with a light that flashes
along with the ringer. Maybe Radio Shack might even have separate flashing-
light ringers. This would work even if your computer wasn't on...you could
set the light on your desk by your monitor.


Eisuke Muroga
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    |    Urbana, IL  61801

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