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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac as an answering machine??
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Date: 16 Apr 88 07:19:03 GMT
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In article <4384@husc6.harvard.edu> hellerst@husc8.UUCP (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
>but shouldn't a Mac with a modem be able to act as an answering machine?

You'll need more than a modem in order to do this.  The only sounds
that a modem knows how to make are the hisses that are used for data
transmission.  And the modem can only recognize the sounds that
another modem makes.  The interface that is used between the modem and
the computer does not permit full control of the sounds that are
transmitted.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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