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From: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mac as a telephone answering machine?
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Date: 8 Feb 90 07:20:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
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Ya know, I was thinking the other day, wouldn't it be neato if you
could set your Mac up to be a telephone answering machine?

Doesn't appear to be too difficult.  Run a program that sets the modem
up for auto-answer.  When the phone rings, the computer answers and 
plays a recording stored in a disk file.

The hard part, of course, would be recording the message from the
caller.  I guess for that you'd need some extra hardware and
software, like Farallon's MacRecorder maybe?

It seems to me that I have read about a card that can be put into
a PC that does this sort of thing, I don't recall ever hearing about
any products that do this for the Mac.

I am sure others (besides me) have considered this possibility.

So how about it?  Anyone out there have some info about this?

Thanks in advance,

  --Jerry

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Jerry Frain -- Professional Student           Kansas State University
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