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From: kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina Kim Wong)
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Subject: Software Modem/Fax Modem
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Date: 29 Mar 91 03:11:36 GMT
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Hey sports fans, with all the talk about the possibility/impossibility of
creating a software modem/fax modem, I thought the group would be 
interested in the attached email I received from a company in Germany, 
which purports to have developed such a product  :-).	
	

thanks for your inquiry about mix, the NeXT  
multimedia information exchange.

mix is a telephone, modem, fax machine and  
voice mail system running in software on the  
Digital Signal Processor that is built into every  
NeXT computer.

Basically this is what you get:

- A voice mail system with digital storage for  
announcement and
  incoming messages
- A 9600 bps send and receive group III fax  
modem
- A 2400 bps full duplex data modem

All of this is totally integrated and (as a  
software product) expandable with future  
software upgrades.
For all four services, mix gives you more  
functionality while being easier to use than  
conventional hardware machines.

mix does NOT use a serial port on your NeXT  
computer and does not need a power supply!

We showed mix at the CeBIT in Hannover and  
expect to start volume shipments in summer.
The pricing has not yet been determined,  
expect to see a competitive price.

This mail has been sent to you by info@ilink.de

i.link GmbH
Hammerstrasse 45c
1000 Berlin 37
Germany

+49 30 781 70 55 phone
+49 30 781 70 56 mix


P.S.	Please don't use info@ilink.de for the next  
couple of weeks - it
	won't work yet.
	Use info@ilink.uucp (or ilink!info) instead.
	We hope to have this worked out very  
soon.

James F.X. O'Gara
kkw@cscwam.umd.edu