Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10919 comp.sys.mac.hardware:10296 alt.privacy:360 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!tbandit From: tbandit@athena.mit.edu (Carlos E Reategui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,alt.privacy Subject: Re: Query: Mac as a smart answering machine Message-ID: <1991Apr15.162021.5661@athena.mit.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 16:20:21 GMT References: <1991Apr13.181516.6422@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <1991Apr15.031421.1009@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 33 In article <1991Apr15.031421.1009@nntp-server.caltech.edu> josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Simplelogic (Joseph)) writes: >d0ess@dtek.chalmers.se (Erik Stenvall) writes: > >>In faustus@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Kurt Ackermann) writes: > >>>I am intrigued by the idea of using a computer as a smart answering machine >>>to sort out callers, ring differently for different people, leave >>>different messages for different callers, and such things. > >>>Do such things exist for the Mac? I have heard of Watson boards for IBM-type >>>machines. > >Unfortunately, it takes additional hardware to implement such a device. First >of all, you will need a DTMF ("TouchTone (tm)") decoder to accept the input >of the caller, and more importantly, you need a ring generator to generate the ... a bit of omited stuff Actually there is a device out (?) for the mac that will do the phone service thing. That is the new desktop DoveFax. It was demoed at MacWorld Boston last august. It could tell between a fax call and a voice call. If it was a voice call it would act like voice mail. If I remember right, one could give out special codes to people so that the could get personalized messages from you. For those of us that bought the original dovefax, I belive that there is an upgrade out there both in softwara and hardware that goes for about $100. Anyone out there with more details? ... Anyone from Dove corp on the net? > >-- >Joseph I. Chiu, Department of Computer Science, Calif. Inst. of Technology >1-57 Fleming House, Caltech, Pasadena 91126. (818) 585-0393 >josephc@coil.caltech.edu ...I don't know what I don't know tbandit@athena.mit.edu