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- From: bob@bpamiga.pegasus.com (Bob Proffitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Phone Line Interface Hardware
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <bob.00h2@bpamiga.pegasus.com>
- References: <1h5v86INNsib@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:38:48 HST
- Organization: Amiga Hawaii Users' Group
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1h5v86INNsib@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kar5@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin A. Roll) writes:
- >
- >I need to know if any hardware exists for interfacing an Amiga to a phone line.
- >It must provide these features:
- >
- >- Recognize incoming call and signal machine
- >- Pick up the phone line when told
- >- Connect an audio source (Amiga sound outputs) to the phone line
- >- Provide touch-tone recognition
- >
- >A modem would handle the first three, but falls flat on its face for tone
- >recognition. This hardware must cost < $129 and hook to an Amiga port,
- >pref. serial, parallel, or PCMCIA.
- >
- >Getting my hands on such a device may mean using an Amiga in a big project
- >instead of (GASP) a PC clone. Can anyone out there help?
- >
- The GVP PhonePak does what you ask. I saw the ad for one in last
- month's Amazing Computing, and had my local dealer bring one in.
- It comes configured as a smart answering machine that also does voice
- mail and FAX. The cost is $399, mail order, and it fits in a Zorro II
- slot.
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- Bob Proffitt, KH6C Pearl City, Hawaii bob@bpamiga.pegasus.com
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