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From: dje@uswest.com (Douglas Ertz #350 x2589)
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Subject: Answering Device With Continuous Play and Hangup Features
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Date: 22 Sep 89 21:11:29 GMT
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I am looking for a device that will

     1)     answer a phone call (either by detecting ringing or via
            an RS-232 connection that can be used to send commands to the
            device telling it to go off-hook)

     2)     play a continguous message

     3)     go on-hook when it detects that the caller hangsup the phone
            or a command is sent to it, via the RS-232 mentioned earlier,
            telling it to go on-hook.

The message being played back is a tone, so some type of box that
genarates tones instead of playing back a message would also do.

The key words here are continguous playback and detects hangup.  I
have talked to a number of manufactures and none seem to provide these
features.

P.S.  This will be used on a tip and ring circuit.

                                        Doug Ertz
                                        dje@uswest.com
                                        (303) 930-2589