Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: vijit!root@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Dave Madsen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Help, Weird Equipment Required! Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 08:16:06 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 32 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 355, message 4 of 5 I need to get a device that'll hook into an IBM type (preferably) PC, that'll do the following: 1) Call a specified phone number. 2) Return a status to me of BUSY, NO ANSWER, or ANSWER. 3) Repeat all these steps under computer control. Nope, this is not for illegal purposes, nor is it for telemarketing, an activity that *ought* to be illegal... At night, certain phone lines are supposed to be forwarded to *recordings*. This device would be used to check these lines to see if the lines are properly forwarded (ANSWER) or if someone forgot (NO ANSWER) or if we need to try again later (BUSY). Since this would happen at night, there's going to be nobody around to do the test, just a lonely computer. I'm not a telephone person, and have no idea of what kind of gear is out there. Do you know who has such stuff, so I could call them, or of any way I could find out who has equipment like this? Would a telemarketing equipment supplier have stuff like this? Do you know any dealers? (Although I hate supporting that industry). "Signed, Desperate" :-) Thanks very much! Dave Madsen ---dcm gargoyle.uchicago.edu!vijit!madsen (uucp) or madsen@vijit.chi.il.us (domain) This message claims to state the personal opinion of ONLY myself, and no other person or organization.