Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!nobody From: soley@ontenv Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone gizmo for one-line customers Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 89 22:48:56 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Originally-From: "Norman S. Soley" X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 3, message 7 In article , black%ll-micro@ll-vlsi.arpa (Jerry Glomph Black) writes: : 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 I think what you were reading about is a product called Watson, in addition to doing what you say it also is a modem and comes with voicemail software for the PC (a little rudimentary, but workable) considering this the price is quite reasonable. -- Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment UUCP: uunet!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley VOICE: +1 416 323 2623 OR: soley@ontenv.UUCP " Stay smart, go cool, be happy, it's the only way to get what you want"