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From: 99681084@ucs.uwplatt.edu (99681084@ucs.uwplatt.edu   Mike Gordon)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Phones used as intercoms
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.050001.230@ucs.uwplatt.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 11:00:01 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.181746.5465@syssoft.com>
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In article <1990Nov12.181746.5465@syssoft.com>, len@syssoft.com (Len Galasso) writes:
> 
> 
> 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
> isolate the system from the "Phone Company" and by the use of a special
> ringing sequence which is obviously non-standard (at least for our region),
> say, a burst of short ringing tones, enable someone in the house to pick 
> up the phone in any room and carry out a conversation.


   Check out the lastest Dak catalogue.  They have two 'mini-office' phones in
there that work on 1 or 2 regular lines, and can also use regular phones.  The
 system allows pageing, intercom, music on hold, etc.  But the most important
part is that you can still receive incoming phone calls while using the
intercom.  

   The phone were realitively inexpensive when compared to going with an office
system.

(don't quote me on the features, as they're jut off the top of my head right
now.)


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