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From: ken@earth.wustl.edu (Ken Krieger)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Phones used as intercoms
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.035125.6050@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 90 03:51:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.181746.5465@syssoft.com>
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In article <1990Nov12.181746.5465@syssoft.com> len@syssoft.com (Len Galasso) writes:
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>
>I live in a four-bedroom, split-level house which has at least one phone
>jack in each room.  What I'd like to do is to allow the phone "network"--
>if you will--act like a local intercom when it isn't being used as a
>regular phone system.  More specifically, I'd like to be able to somehow
>
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Check out the newest DAK catalog... there is a phone system there that can
have up to I think six or eight different phones, no KSU, and can deal with
2 incomming phone lines.  Somehow the phones use the same wiring in the house
to let you intercom between the phones... like dial an extension, or 
brodcast a message to all of them.  It looks cool to me!! the phones are about 
 $130 if I remember correctly.  

Let us know how they work if you decide to get a set!! (there is a 30 day
money back gaurantee)

ken