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From: ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Answering Machine
Message-ID: <1106@swbatl.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 07:29:34 GMT
References: <9001112057.AA09595@nomad> <9330@cbmvax.commodore.com> <21767@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: ammrk@swbatl.UUCP (Mike R. Kraml)
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In article <21767@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>Guys, guys, what you are talking about exists in the IBM world.  It's
>called Watson.  And it works quite well.  Perhaps someone might want
>to persuade the company to port it to the Amiga, as it doesn't
>tie up the parallel port or their joystick port...
>--
>John  M.  Adams    --*--    Professional Student on the six-year plan!
>Internet:  jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu   -or-   vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu
>"Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory." Calvin & Hobbs

I am sure everyone realizes that this product is available in the PC world.  
I think the questions started as to how can it be done on the amiga.  Well,
the one I built was done very easily, useing the Mimetic's joystick sampler,
and a simple parallel interface, an inexpensive DTMF decoder, (available at 
your local radio shack), and a little time and it was built.  It provides a
simple mail box function, full touch tone driven, and with the INTERNAL audio
capabilities, amiga voice was added at no extra cost.  The total price, well,
about $100.00 including the digitizer.  This could have been done for about 
$20.00 using the parallel port build your own digitizer, and the joystick port
to drive the interface, but I happen to have the joystick digitizer laying 
around from my music stuff, so for me it was much more practicle.  Anyway, 
I hope this helps all you hacks out there wanting to build Voice mail boxes, 
I must admit there is some low level routines to read the digitizer in real
time and controll the i/o (to drive the relays and such), but its always fun
to learn a new trick.  Catch ya all later, Mike...

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