Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 21 Jun 91 23:33:16 GMT From: Dave Levenson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Questions About Caller*ID Boxes Message-ID: Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 477, Message 9 of 11 Lines: 29 In article , jwt!john@uunet.uu.net (John Temples) writes: > With the imminent arrival of Caller*ID here in Florida, I want to get > the necessary boxes required to support it. Even though the tentative > turn-on date of Caller*ID is July 1, the business office has no > information to offer me yet. In NJ, we buy them at Sears, and at the local AT&T Phone Center. We also mail-order them from Bell Atlantic Business Supplies. They offer a number of 'boxes' with display and varying amounts of memory. They also sell another box with the RS-232 output, and no display. > ...Finally, what about > support for multiple lines? Are there multi-line boxes I can hook all > my phone lines to, or must I purchase a separate box for each line? I bought a couple of those boxes at Radio Shack that allow an answering machine to answer two lines. Using three of these in cascade allows up to four lines to fan in to a single ring-detecting device, such as the Call*Identifier box. 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