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From: apn@apple.com (Alex Novickis)
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Subject: Re: Multi-Line Voicemail Boards
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Date: 11 Nov 90 01:11:08 GMT
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In article <14492@accuvax.nwu.edu> biar!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J
Woodhead) writes:

>A couple of months ago I inquired about voicemail boards for the PC.
>Thanks to all that responded.  I ended up getting a Bigmouth board
>from Talking Technologies of Alameda, CA [415-522-3800] for about
>$225.  This board turns any old PC into a voicemail center, and the
>menu-driven software that comes with it (quite powerful) lets you set
>up voicemail boxes, phone trees, do voice questionaires, store and
>auto-forward voicemail, etc, etc, etc.

>I'm quite happy with it, but now I have a slightly more complicated
>bit of hardware on my Xmas shopping list.  What I need is a board that
>has the following features:
>into a single PC.

>Anyone got any leads on such a beastie?  Oh yeah, if there is a
>multiline box that talks to it's host over Ethernet, that would do the
>trick too.

There's a company in Los Gatos, CA called VICOM or maybe VYCOM and
they used to have a 64 line card for the PC, however I believe it only
did voice out, DTMF in type stuff. They may have more of such stuff
 ...  this was made for mass termination lines, e.g. 900 or 976 use.


Alex P. Novickis, Real Time systems demi-guru.  (W)   408-370-4541
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