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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Modem and ans. mach. on same line!!
Keywords: modem telecom
Message-ID: <101@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 17:53:14 GMT
References: <1903@loral.UUCP>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
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Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <1903@loral.UUCP> jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden) writes:
|I saw a new gadget advertised in the  Feb '89 COMPUUTER SHOPPER
|that is supposed to allow you to let a modem share a line with
|a voice answering machine.  Works like this:  Call first, let the
|phone ring ONCE ONLY.  Clever box understands this ISOLATED ring
|is a signal to SWITCH the phone line over to the MODEM for
|the next 100 seconds.

Cute idea, but this would be unreliable in practice.  The ringback you
hear when calling someone does NOT happen at the same time as their phone
rings.  Ever have someone pick up the phone "before it rang"?

Does it silence the ringing to your regular phones, or do you hear them ring
once whenever someone calls for the modem?

It might work in some cases, but I suspect it would be a giant headache.
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