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From: cfw@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Chuck Waltrip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: fax switches
Keywords: fax
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.190529.11857@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 19:05:29 GMT
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In article <1627@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jchin@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Joseph Chin) writes:
>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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