kg@hplabs.UUCP (Ken Greer) (09/24/83)
I bought a Phone-mate IQ-3000. It was the only machine I found which had beeperless remote answering. That is, to remotely get your messages, you use a touch tone phone, rather than having to carry around a beeper. (All functions are accessible remotely.) It has other goodies like "toll-saver" - answers on first ring if there are messages, on fourth if there are no messages (so you can hang up before it answers avoiding cost of call). It has variable record length - records as long as caller talks (can override if you like). You can also record any length message you want. It has several other random goodies. The only problem is that it was apparently coded by a blazing idiot. It can go into an infinite loop if you do something wrong. The only recourse is to pull the plug. Cost: $299 at a discount house ("The Good Guys") in San Francisco. Ken Greer ucbvax!hplabs!kg kg@hplabs (csnet) kg.hplabs@rand-relay (arpanet) -- Ken Greer