[comp.dcom.telecom] Does anybody make this device?

morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) (07/23/89)

I've got an answering machine that picks up on the 2nd ring.  It does
everything else right, and I don't want to swap it out.
I opened it up and traced enough of the circuit to discover that the
circuit doesn't lend itself to simple <change this resistor to x value>
modifications like my old Phone-Mate 400 did to change the rings to
6 or 7.

Somebody must make a small box that would "eat" the first N rings, thereby
delaying an answering machine from 2 rings to N+2.

Ideas?  Even if it's just a pointer to an old issue of Popular Electronics,
or something.


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