Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: crum%alicudi.usc.edu@usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Hottest Answering Machine Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 89 23:09:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: University of Southern California Lines: 20 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 463, message 7 of 11 From reading literature, it seems to me that a "hot" answering system would be Teleflex, a "telephone handling system" that works with Macintosh computers to interact with callers using touch-tone, sound digitizing, voice synthesis and modem signaling. Teleflex costs about $3000 not including a host Macintosh. It is programmable using a graphical method -- a flow diagram with icons is created. I don't have one for my residence yet, but I would like to see such sophisticated systems in homes. You know, "Crum residence. To page Gary press 1. To leave a voice message press 2. To begin FAX transmission press 3. To connect with Gary's UNIX system press 4." Do you people think that things like UUCP and FAX machines can deal with pauses in their dialing sequences? I hope so. Call (818)700-0510 for more information about Teleflex, and please tell them that Gary Crum of USC referred you to them. I am not currently affiliated with the Magnum, the developer of Teleflex, but I would really like to work on such products. Gary