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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Does This Feature Exist in a Telephone?
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Date: 6 Jun 90 15:33:43 GMT
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Darwin C. Weyh writes:

> I'd like to have a speaker phone that she could answer without going
> over to the device.  If it could be voice activated or if I could
> enter a secured code to have the phone answer itself.

	I think our AT&T System-25 can do that.  If you have a HFAI-10
(10-line Hands Free Auto Intercom, I think) on your desk, your
secretary can call you and you can answer without touching the
instrument.  I'm pretty sure this can only be activated from specially
programmed phones (i.e. your secretaries, but not from an outside
line).  I would imagine there are HFAI-5's as well.  I believe (but am
not at all sure about this) that the System-25 instruments are
interchangable with Merlin sets.  This stuff is all intended for small
businesses, and may be out of reasonable price ranges for home use.


Roy Smith, 
Public Health Research Institute 
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New York, NY 10016 
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