Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!jeffrey From: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Voice Card dialling out (was Re: Questions for the hardware hackers) Keywords: optical mouse - VP card to dial out Message-ID: <1990Dec29.143541.27555@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Date: 29 Dec 90 14:35:41 GMT References: <1990Dec28.195237.2760@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> <2191@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> Followup-To: poster Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility Lines: 17 In article <2191@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson) writes: >But please, spare us, aren't there enough 'services' of that kind >already operating? Surely there must be a better use for that >technology! Yes, I know about that technology. Seems that the NYC Board of Ed calls the parents (computer style) to say your kid(s) missed classes. Seems that the kids got too good at taking the "Absence" postcards out of the mailbox! Really, though, I'm more interested in the capabilities of the card, not in exploiting them. -- Jeffrey L. Bromberger System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu jeffrey@ccnysci.BITNET Anywhere!{cmcl2,philabs,phri}!ccnysci!jeffrey