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From: ted@ultra.UUCP (Ted Schroeder)
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Subject: Re:  Special Spkr Phone wanted...
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Date: 19 May 88 16:57:16 GMT
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Roger Swann writes in V8N82:
> My solution would be to hookup a speakerphone type device that would
> automatically answer the line after a few rings. Then anyone in the
> room could answer the phone by just speaking loadly after the line
> had been _picked up_. If no one happened to be there to catch the
> call, so what, no problem.


That's the way we use the phone in our lab right now.  We have something
called SRX (Shared Resource Exchange) phones (and probably a PBX to go
with it), that has a handsfree mode.  This allows anyone in the company
to treat the phone like an intercom.  It works great.  I use it all
the time in my office too.

The address on my instruction manual says:
Shared Resource Exchange
15926 Midway Rd
Dallas, TX 75244

      Ted Schroeder                   ultra!ted@Ames.arc.nasa.GOV
      Ultra Network Technologies
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