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From: jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: Phone interface.
Message-ID: <4115@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 88 17:18:05 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<...a built in phone interface... would enable to NeXT to become the worlds 
most expensive answering machine. It could answer the phone, play a digitized 
message, and then digitize the persons message over the phone line...>

And even more!  With that DSP chip's help, it would only be a matter of 
software to make an interactive answering machine, e.g.: "Press 1 to request 
information, 2 to place an order, 3 press 3 to...", etc.

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