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From: trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead)
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Subject: Phone Tree Hardware
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Date: 30 Sep 90 00:34:45 GMT
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I am looking for some relatively inexpensive hardware to set up a
phone tree/voice mail system in my house.  Basically what I want is a
board or device that plugs into either a MS-DOS box or a Mac (I seem
to have a few extras just lying around not earning their keep!) and do
the following:

	* Ring detect & Pickup.
	* Say things to the poor saps who call me.
	* Recognize touchtone.
	* Digitize what they say.
	* Be reasonably programmable.
	* Optional but nice : Handle more than one line at a time.

Needless to say, I'd like to set up a super-answering machine, with
the ability to let people record messages, store messages for friends
to call in and get, maybe even put up a simple touchtone game or two
just for the hell of it.

So, what is available?  And how good/bad/ugly is it.  Im willing to
hack at it a bit to get it to do what I want.


Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc. !uunet!biar!trebor trebor@biar.UUCP