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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: fax switches
Keywords: fax
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Date: 28 Jan 91 00:50:06 GMT
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In article <1627@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
>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
>[...]

I use at the moment a thing called ASAP TF-555.
This thing picks up at the first ring, waits for a fax tone or a
reverse modem tone. If any of these are present it directs the call to
the fax or modem (depends on the tone of course). If none of these are
present, the call goes to the phone. If after a while you do not pick
up the phone, the call goes to the answering machine. (I don't use
this last feature, since my phone already has an answering machine
built in.)

You can get this stuff at 47th street photo. However I would not call
it affordable. Considering the few components involved, I think it is
quite expensive. Someone with a little bit of hardware background
could easily let the NeXT itself do this work.

Anyone up to doing this?

Ronald

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