daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) (07/14/88)
Dave, >>I was wondering if anyone has written a program to make the amiga with >>a modem act as a pseudo-answering machine, or if there was some > ^^^^^ >>technical reason why this couldn't be done. > >It could be done, but it's non-trivial. I'm not sure what the modem >buys you: The modem interfaces a data line to the phone -- it doesn't I would be interested in something like this. I once saw a box that would answer an incomming call without ringing your phone. It would ask the caller to enter a 2 digit code number. After the code was entered and verified your phone would ring. When your phone rings the number is displayed, so you know who is calling. If you didn't answer the box would store the number for later reference of who called. It was around $200.00. It would be nice if I caould get the AMIGA to do this for less $$$. >get the voice line to your Amiga. So you would have to build a separate >phone line to Amiga interface (including appropriate line isolation, >filtering, and all the other things the FCC checks for), then add >either a sound digitizer or a DTMF detection circuit and interface. I think Radio Shack (yeah I know Radio Shack uck!!) has a touch tone decoder chip for a few bucks. There was a digitizer for the C-64 (yeah I know) that could detect and record incomming audio data. I think it came with software that would allow the computer to respond to the digitized data. I haven't seen anything on this in a while since I don't read too much about the C-64. >>So what do you think? Is it possible? Yes I think it is possible. Why don't I do it???? That's what my wife says about our bathroom (as well as other "projects" she wants me to do ;-) ). Dave S.