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From: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Date: 16 Nov 92 07:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248
Reply-To: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 

Ray:

I don't know what your budget is, but I do have one seggestion.  For
about $295(I think), you can buy a board from Talking Technology for
your personal computer.  This board acts just like a answering machine
with all the features of the big time voice mailbox systems.  You can
set up to 400 private mailboxes and you can also have it call your
beeper if someone leaves you a message.  It can also call  you at
another phone number and say "I have a message for Ray, please enter you
password to hear your message".  I own one of the boards, but to be
honest, I have never tried the beeper feature.  By the way, the board is
called BigMouth and it is advertised in the back of many of the computer
magazines.

Dan Furnier
                                       
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: wstef@hubcap.clemson.edu (W. Gregg Stefancik)
Subject: Caller ID Devices
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:45:52 GMT

Does anyone know of a Caller ID device which interfaces to a computer
via a serial interface?  Please send me any info on such devices.

-- 
W. Gregg Stefancik
wstef@hubcap.clemson.edu
From: carndt@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chris Arndt)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Date: 24 Nov 92 05:27:04 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I came into this thread in the middle. I infer from the subject line
that the original poster is looking for a TAD of some sort that will
call his pager when a message comes in. 

Panasonic has at least one top-of-the-line answering machine that
will:
a) call you at a preprogrammed number and play a taped message
indicating you have a message.
b) call a digital pager and send the touch-tone tones for its
number so you know the answering machine called you.

Its also a 2 line machine, with the ability to have separate messages
for each line.

I don't have the model # here, but I can get it.
From: sl@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Stuart Lea)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: DO YOU KNOW OF A CHIP THAT WILL DO ALL THESE FUNCTIONS ?
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:05:03 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Does a device which performs these functions exist ?

	General user telephone functions as well as:

	DTMF decoding, suitable for microprocessor decoding
	Output (TTL) indicating 
		
		engaged, 
		ringing out, 
		user pick-up ?

	I'm designing an answerphone and I need a device which will do all 
	of these functions.

	
Please email me direct as my newsfeed is flaky

Thanks


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Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: johnson@tigger.jvnc.net (Steven L. Johnson)
Subject: Re: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Originator: johnson@tigger.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:40:18 GMT

Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com> writes:

>> I am interested in an answering machine that will call my
>> pager/beeper.

>Panasonic KX-T2460, KX-T2470, or KX-T2740

Do any or all of these allow you to set a retry interval and
maximum number of pages, or do they just do one try for each
incoming message.

I imagine call progress and success/fail determination on whether
it actually got a the completion tones from the pager service is
a bit much to ask for.  But still...

-Steve
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: tim@fsg.com (Timothy Hunt)
Subject: What do the initials DSS mean
Keywords: DSS
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, Inc.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:21:04 GMT

I've been installing a Panasonic key phone system - without
documentation! In several places the setup screens refer
to DSS. What does it mean?

Thanks

Tim Hunt
tim@fsg.com
From: ibinsha@mcl.ucsb.edu (sharob Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Voicemail Program
Summary: I need to know the best software for running an in-home voice-mail netw
Keywords: Vmail by Watkins
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:37:04 GMT


   I have a 386ss system that is Ibm compatible with a 2400modem at the present and I want to hook up a voicemail system.  I have looked at a Program Voicemail and it is produced by Watkins, please send your comments if you have run or knowa lot about this program.  I would also like to know some applications that can be run on a Apple/Macintosh network.  I would like to have the capabilty to run at least 2000 seperate voice-mail accounts at once.  Thank you for the information.



   Sharob Brown ibinsha@mcl.ucsb.edu
   p.o. box 8938 Goleta ca 93118
   805-968-5800
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom,comp.windows.ms
From: peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavins)
Subject: Re: Foreign characters on Windows 3.1
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:07:41 GMT

yves@speedy.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yves Vidal) writes:

>Any of you know a mechanism with Windows to use accentuation and 
>special foreign characters when running WINDOWS 3.1 with a QWERTY
>keyboard. 

In SETUP select your keyboard as "US International"  --  this is the
normal US keyboard that is able to generate the accented characters with
pairs of keystrokes, the first being a dead key.  The five dead keys are 
" ' ~ ` ^.  If you press ~ then n, for example, you get the spanish n in
senora.  You press the dead key first, then the character that the dead
key is to apply to.  It's great fun!  To generate the actual dead keys
themselves, you have to press the dead key followed by space bar.  You
get a beep if the dead key-character combination is not allowed and does
not translate to any accented character.
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From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Date: 15 Nov 92 14:02:00 GMT
Reply-To: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis


I am interested in an answering machine that will call my
pager/beeper.

I already have some good answering machines (Panasonic KX-T1470).

Originally I posted here a request for information on a device that
would work with my existing machines to call my pager.

Here in summary is the problem with the external devices:
They tend to be more expensive then a new answering machine. Also
they rely on a "TIME" factor to guess whether a message has been left
or not.

If I programed the device to call me only if the caller stayed on the
line 30 seconds and the caller used the asterisk to stop the OGM
message and left me a message without using up 30 seconds of time I
would not be beeped.

I also tried this program from a BBS:
BEEPME30.ZIP    26055  04-05-91  TSR BEEPS PAGER WHEN MESSAGE LEFT ON
ANS. MACHINE.

This program doesn't care whether or not a message was left. It will
dial your beeper anytime your phone got a ring.

BEEPME30 can be set to page you as soon as someone turns on your
computer or accesses a predetermined directory so it would be useful
to some in specialized applications. It can also be used to page at
preset dates and times.

Anyhow I would like recommendations on answering machines that will
call my pager ONLY if a message is left.

Thanks

Ray Normandeau
E-Mail Internet: ray.normandeau@factory.com
If I don't acknowledge your transmission, it didn't get thru.
P O Box 854, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108-0854
                                                                             
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: James.Gorak <James.Gorak@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Re: What do the initials DSS mean
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:33:00 GMT
Keywords: DSS

In <tim.722438464@fsg.com> tim@fsg.com (Timothy Hunt) writes:

>I've been installing a Panasonic key phone system - without
>documentation! In several places the setup screens refer
>to DSS. What does it mean?

DSS is Direct Station Selection.  Usually a button on a telephone
or attendent console assigened to a station in the system. A small 
system may have each station assigned to an individual button. On 
an attendent console DSS buttons are used to extend a call on a 
incoming line to the station assigned to the DSS button. On a telephone
DSS buttons are used to place an internal call to the station assigened 
to the DSS button and sometimes to transfer an external call to that 
station, depending on the design of the system.
-- 
James.Gorak@mixcom.com
From: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: RE: JUNK FAX
Date: 16 Nov 92 07:23:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248
Reply-To: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 

Something else that is applicable to this is the 1991 Telecommunications
Act whic goes into effect in December of this year.  The act covers
autodialers and various telemarketing aspects of buisness.  Here are a
few of the highlights:  It bans junk faxes(unless the business has an
established business relationship with you).  No calling before 8:00
a.m. or after 9:00p.m(charities can call until 9:30p.m.).  Any
automatic dialer machines must hang up if the other party does within
three seconds.  And it also had many more rules conserning the
computerized telemarketing call.  It also requires telemarketers to
not call if you tell them not to.  If anyone has any specific questions,
I do have a copy of the act at my office.

Dan Furnier
From: jsweet@irvine.com (Jerry Sweet)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: wanted: DTMF to RS-232
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:16:49 GMT
Reply-To: jsweet@irvine.com
Organization: Irvine Compiler Corp., Irvine, California, USA

Looking for pointers to over-the-counter devices that take in standard
US telephonic signals, watch for DTMF, and write converted output,
say, ASCII, to RS-232 serial ports.

Ideal situation, although not required: multiple DTMF jack inputs,
multiplexed RS-232 output---say, via some ASCII convention identifying
source input jack along with the converted data.

Bidirectionality useful, but not necessary.  Full telephone signal
processing not necessary.  Aesthetic packaging not necessary.

Prefer a low cost, stand-alone, dedicated device---not a bus board,
not a DSP control program; nothing requiring a separate computer.

Respond to me directly, and I'll summarize.
From: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: RE: PHONE MODIFY
Date: 16 Nov 92 07:11:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248
Reply-To: daniel.furnier@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Furnier) 

Eric:

The reason I want the modem to take the phone off hook is because, I
will be using a hands free head set to talk.  If the modem can turn the
phone on and off, I won't have to keep my finger on the hook while the
modem tries to dial another call.

Thanks,
Dan Furnier
From: serge.cote@synapse.org (Serge Cote) 
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Foreign characters on Windows 3.1
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:22:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: serge.cote@synapse.org (Serge Cote) 

From: serge.cote@synapse.org
To: yves@speedy.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yves Vidal)

YV>Any of you know a mechanism with Windows to use accentuation and
YV>special foreign characters when running WINDOWS 3.1 with a QWERTY
YV>keyboard.

YV>I need to write text in French or Spanish using either the WRITE
YV>application of WINDOWS or WORD PERFECT 5.

Salut Yves,
        Pour tes programmes DOS tu te sers de la m.me m.thode que tu
utilisais en DOS et .a va marcher.  Pour ce qui es de Windows 3.1 tu vas
faire un tour dans le SETUP et tu changes la langue pour Canadien
Fran.ais et tu verras le changement.

Serge Cote
---
 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #7400 . Malheureusement, je ne suis parfait qu'a 99.9...
                                   
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: yost@adobe.com (David Yost)
Subject: international telephone numbers
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:54:19 GMT

I've seen a lot of use on the net of
international phone numbers starting with
a + sign before the country code.  Is
this some sort of standard?  I have CCITT
Recommendations E.160 and E.163 through
E.167, and I don't see any mention of "+".

The question is this:  Is it plausible to
make an international telephone network
product that can accept full international
phone numbers (even for local calls) after
being configured for where it is in the world
phone network?  Seems to me yes, and now the
question is what syntax to use to indicate
an international phone number.

Thanks.

 --dave yost
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
Subject: Re: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
Organization: Proponent
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:19:10 GMT

In article <473.586.uupcb@factory.com> ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray  
Normandeau) writes:
> 
> I am interested in an answering machine that will call my
> pager/beeper.
> 
> Anyhow I would like recommendations on answering machines that will
> call my pager ONLY if a message is left.

Panasonic KX-T2460, KX-T2470, or KX-T2740

-- 
# Monty Solomon / PO Box 2486 / Framingham, MA  01701-0405
# monty%roscom@think.com
From: Chris.Davies@f544.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Davies)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Foreign characters on Windows 3.1
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:23:00 -0500

 > I need to write text in French or Spanish using either the WRITE
 > application of WINDOWS or WORD PERFECT 5.

In DOS Word Perfect there is the compose character (Control-V) that accomplishes
that, i.e. CTRL-V, e' produces e with an grave.  Perhaps in the Windows version
this is also present.  I don't know for sure, but I would think that WordPerfect
would have implemented this in WP for Windows.

--Chris

Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne)
Subject: Re: TAD'S AND BEEPER/PAGERS
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:57:17 GMT

There's been a lot of good words expressed about the Big Mouth
voice messaging card in misc.entrepreneurs. It costs $199 and
seems to do what you were asking. 

Robert Burgoyne
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
From: loucks@Software.Mitel.COM (Jack Loucks)
Newsgroups: alt.dcom.telecom
Subject: Nederland Telephone Info Needed
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:35:14 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

I like answers from someone familiar with Nederland (Dutch) telephone
requirements. My question is : Will a North American telephone work
in a Dutch household?

We have family friends in Voorburg, Holland and I'd like to send
a gift (repackaged North American telephone) to them. But before
I do I'd like to know whether the phone will work for them, if not,
what won't work, or are there any Dutch regulations preventing
this type of activity.

Any info appreciated.

TTFN,

Jack Loucks
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MITEL Corporation                    Phone    : (613) 592-2122 X4937
340 Legget Drive
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Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
From: NVOGTEN@KUBVX1.KUB.NL (U092 774111 vogten)
Subject: price-list
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:14:53 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, The Netherlands
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

Can anyone help me get a price list of VR-items ?
(helmets, 3d mice - etc)
Thanks's !
(please mail to NVOGTEN@KUB.NL)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
From: MACDONAN@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090
Subject: art and technology conference
Originator: usenet@rs6000.bham.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:40:58 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Any ideas for a conference on art and technology, with an emphasis on
the performing arts????
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
From: mgw@world.std.com (maryanne g wolf)
Subject: Re: art and technology conference
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:04:01 GMT

In article <924018124058@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> MACDONAN@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
>Any ideas for a conference on art and technology, with an emphasis on
>the performing arts????

What about 

* something to do with acting and special effects, or participatory T.V.
* something to do with "live" musical performances which also 
  include recorded music (kerioke etc.)
* something about the effect of Science Fiction T.V. shows and movies on
  views of technology (e.g. the ubiquitous computer on Star Trek)
* something to do with strange new ways of playing
  electronic music, such as they have in the Disney World "Imagination"
  "ride".  For example, people can make noises by stomping on different
  parts of a special floor.  Also a person can conduct recorded music.
  A virtual world as the user interface to MIDI.

my favorite idea of the ones I can think of:
* something which connects robotics and puppetry and ventriloquism and
  intelligent agents.

Mary-Anne Wolf
almost employed but not quite
From: mvarg@ctp.com (Mike Vargo)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc
Subject: Looking for VR info.....
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:47:05 GMT
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners


Hello,
	We are interested in the mechanics of high-fidelity drawing (including
ray-tracing), and info on performance bottlenecks, anything on (gee,
if this stuff ran 50 times faster I could...) future apps; and any
specifics (video h/w especially) on visor construction....

Books, Demos, ftp sites with stuff, ANY info is GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks for your time......

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Newsgroups: alt.uu.future
Subject: Neue Mailbox
Date: 22 Nov 92  19:58:00 MET


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From: as_radfo@csd.uwe.ac.uk (AS Radford)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc
Subject: Re: Cases in Esperanto
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:48:19 GMT
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol

In article <83758@ut-emx.uucp> malirath@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Fisher) writes:
...
>Come to think of it, if Esperanto should be said to have more than two
>cases, then shouldn't Latin have a "agentive" case that is introduced by
>"a/ab"? :)

Cxu ne havas?  Mi kredis ke "a/ab" bezonas la (angla) 'ablative'.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^
"Put the ablative with 'a',
 'sine', 'tenus', 'pro' and 'prae',
  etc ... " <mi ne povas memori la restajxo>

-- 
  Arthur Radford
  University of the West of England      -------------------------------
  BRISTOL, BS16 1QY, UK                	      Esperanto parolata
  as_radfo@uk.ac.uwe.csd                 -------------------------------
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From: higa@lclark.edu (Keith Higa)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc,soc.culture.esperanto
Subject: Re: rrrrrr (was Re: More on Esperanto pronounciation)
Date: 16 Nov 92 05:52:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Nov16.055209.3160
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

In article <1992Nov15.175848.44807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Everywhere you see a "tt" in the above is a sound we already have in
>American English (Oh-oh; I forgot to check to see if you're a Brit; if
>so, it won't work) which is called a flap.  This flap sound is very
>similar to the trill or tap /r/ of Esperanto, Spanish, Italian, etc.  

Japanese has that same sound for "r", which they use in place of "l."
Try saying something between a "l" and a "d" simultaneously.
That should do the trick.  I think.

-- 
Keith K. Higa                         Lewis & Clark College    
higa@lclark.edu                       Portland, OR, USA
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