Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: black%ll-micro@ll-vlsi.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Telephone gizmo for one-line customers Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 88 15:51:17 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 211, message 6 I just read a short review in PC Week about a $400 gizmo which answers your phone, then issues a robot-voice announcement to the caller requesting that the (hopefully touch-tone-equipped) person press the '3' button. The caller is then connected to your voice phone, which rings as usual. If '3' is not pressed, the gizmo box assumes that a fax or modem is calling, and your data equipment receives the incoming call. Seems like a good way to get double use of one line. The $400 seems overpriced for what you get, my $50 answering machine can recognize tones and make decisions accordingly. Are there seminal components or subsystems you can get to put one of these together?? Any other comments on this kind of equipment? J. Glomph Black, black@micro@LL-VLSI.arpa