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- From: sokoloff@athena.mit.edu (James T Sokoloff)
- Subject: Re: Getting Caller ID information from a modem?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:17:14 GMT
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- In article <C11621.HoC@news.udel.edu> kurisuto@chopin.udel.edu (Sean J. Crist) writes:
- >Caller ID, a telephone service started a few years ago, allows you to see
- >the phone number of the party calling you before you answer the phone.
- >After the second ring, these data are somehow transmitted to a box which
- >displays the number on an LCD display.
- >
- >Does anybody know how this data is transmitted, and whether it is possible
- >for a Mac to read this information through an ordinary modem? I would
- >have thought that additional hardware would have been necessary (perhaps
- >hardware which does not presently exist), but I recently saw an ad for a
- >software product which seems to be accomplishing this. What I want to
- >write is a program which keeps a log of incoming calls (time and length of
- >call and the number of the caller would be automatically recorded; the
- >user would type in a description of the call).
- >
- >--Kurisuto
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- ---Jim Sokoloff
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