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From: jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: fax switches
Keywords: fax
Message-ID: <1627@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 27 Jan 91 08:47:36 GMT
Organization: USENET Public Access, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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This is probably not the right news group to post this ... but here it
goes:

I am looking for a GOOD fax/telephone switch. My primitive unit requires
that someone or an answering machine picks up the call before it can
detect the special tone emitted by automatic incoming fax calls, and
then route the call to the fax machine/modem. I know of intelligient
built-in fax/phone switch that is actually intelligent enough to answer
the call one first ring to determine whether it is a fax call (again,
but using the special tone) and if it is not a fax call, the switch will
ring the call through to an extension phone/answering machine. But the
unit described in the previous sentence is NOT built into the fax modem
I have. Does anyone know or can recommend an AFFORDABLE external
switching unit that does the same thing?

I am sure this will be of interest to NeXT owners who wish to attach
fax modems to their systems, but do not wish to incur the extra cost
of a dedicated fax line.

I will follow up any suggestions and post a summary (if there is one).

:-) Joe
jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca

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