Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New AT&T Digital Answering Machine Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 91 15:37:30 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 34 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 258, Message 7 of 11 In article , ronnie@sos.com (Ron Schnell) writes: > I was recently in an AT&T Phone Center and saw a new answering machine > that they have brought out. It was a completely digital answering > machine, and shaped in a '50s art-deco style (more vertical than > horizontal), with a LED display on the front. The person who worked > there knew nothing about it, and even a friend who works for Ma Bell > didn't know much about it. It costs about $129, and would really > solve the sleep disturbances caused by my current answering machines > clunky sounds. I can tell you a little about the new AT&T solit-state answering machine: It uses no magnetic tape. Both the greeting and the messages are digitized and stored in semiconductor memory. When you are listening to your messages, you may save or erase individual messages, leaving others. You may listen in any order. It remembers new and old messages, more like AUDIX or other voicemail systems. I'm not sure how much storage it has, but it's far less than cassette-based machines. I think I remember someone telling me that it can take less than ten minutes of messages, if there are no "old" messages saved. There is a battery that maintains the memory in the event of a power outage, but its life is only a few hours. Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857