Setting up a NEW 1982 Answering Machine (with Bluetooth)
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Date: 2022-05-28
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marcus
I've been using the Xlink 4 port for 10 years now it is an amazing device keeping you more away from your phone directions able to answer it anywhere in the house and your best bet for the Excellence is 2 have it programmed for a voice over IP service when you dial out a conventional landline but through the internet and when you pick up a phone call come from any of the three cell phones just make sure you wire it correctly line in voice over IP or convention line out splitter cable as many ports as you want 1 port to a dedicated voicemail 1 port do dedicated landline phone or master landline Port 1 fax machine 1 port to optionable depending on government restrictions voice recorder pc-based.
with all these connections properly set up with all these connections properly set up you will never miss a phone call accidentally you'll never miss a fax you'll never miss a call when you're outside via business line voice over IP and you'll never miss a fax just make sure you have it wired correctly and perfectly
technology candy cumbersome and can be life-changing just make sure you draw out a map
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I've been using the Xlink 4 port for 10 years now it is an amazing device keeping you more away from your phone directions able to answer it anywhere in the house and your best bet for the Excellence is 2 have it programmed for a voice over IP service when you dial out a conventional landline but through the internet and when you pick up a phone call come from any of the three cell phones just make sure you wire it correctly line in voice over IP or convention line out splitter cable as many ports as you want 1 port to a dedicated voicemail 1 port do dedicated landline phone or master landline Port 1 fax machine 1 port to optionable depending on government restrictions voice recorder pc-based.
with all these connections properly set up with all these connections properly set up you will never miss a phone call accidentally you'll never miss a fax you'll never miss a call when you're outside via business line voice over IP and you'll never miss a fax just make sure you have it wired correctly and perfectly
technology candy cumbersome and can be life-changing just make sure you draw out a map
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Frank
It doesn't look like the included tapes have a leader, which implies that the mech rewinds to full stop after each use. If there was a leader you'd have 5-10 seconds of dead air each time the machine started playing when someone called in, or you'd miss 5-10 seconds of whatever the message was. This is one reason the microcassette ones were better: microcassettes never used leaders, unlike compact cassettes which typically did, so you could use any tape without worrying about blank space. I have a '90s Sony microcassette model that uses a digital OGM and then records the incoming message to tape. I actually used the dial-in message checking feature years ago. It was pretty nifty, but mine uses a dial-in with a touchtone code, not a weird remote which is basically the equivalent of a phreaking box.
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It doesn't look like the included tapes have a leader, which implies that the mech rewinds to full stop after each use. If there was a leader you'd have 5-10 seconds of dead air each time the machine started playing when someone called in, or you'd miss 5-10 seconds of whatever the message was. This is one reason the microcassette ones were better: microcassettes never used leaders, unlike compact cassettes which typically did, so you could use any tape without worrying about blank space. I have a '90s Sony microcassette model that uses a digital OGM and then records the incoming message to tape. I actually used the dial-in message checking feature years ago. It was pretty nifty, but mine uses a dial-in with a touchtone code, not a weird remote which is basically the equivalent of a phreaking box.
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Russell
We can always count on Clint to make us feel old as shit. Seriously though, I feel like my parents had something similar, but I definitely remember them having one with a built in phone. I also remember getting in trouble for deleting the entire tape by accident in an attempt to hide a message from my teacher. Ah, primitive technology, I had a love/hate relationship with it for sure. Looking back on the price makes me realize how truly spoiled I was back then, the NES went for around 150 if I remember right, adjusting for inflation that was equivalent to about 450 if my math is correct.
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We can always count on Clint to make us feel old as shit. Seriously though, I feel like my parents had something similar, but I definitely remember them having one with a built in phone. I also remember getting in trouble for deleting the entire tape by accident in an attempt to hide a message from my teacher. Ah, primitive technology, I had a love/hate relationship with it for sure. Looking back on the price makes me realize how truly spoiled I was back then, the NES went for around 150 if I remember right, adjusting for inflation that was equivalent to about 450 if my math is correct.
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1993kemot
protip: I'm from Poland, but I have a phone from an operator that doesn't have free voicemail. So I have a redirection from my mobile to my home phone where I have an answering machine and people leave messages there. I call my home phone from the mobile phone, give the access code to the answering machine and listen to the messages. thanks to this I have a completely free voicemail!
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protip: I'm from Poland, but I have a phone from an operator that doesn't have free voicemail. So I have a redirection from my mobile to my home phone where I have an answering machine and people leave messages there. I call my home phone from the mobile phone, give the access code to the answering machine and listen to the messages. thanks to this I have a completely free voicemail!
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Matthew
The 4/1 setting was what was called a toll saver. Back in the dark ages, when long distance charges were a thing, you could call your answering machine from vacation and if it didn't pick up after one ring, you could hang up and save yourself the phone call fees, since they didn't start until the other end picked up the phone.
Cool find Clint. Great episode!
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The 4/1 setting was what was called a toll saver. Back in the dark ages, when long distance charges were a thing, you could call your answering machine from vacation and if it didn't pick up after one ring, you could hang up and save yourself the phone call fees, since they didn't start until the other end picked up the phone.
Cool find Clint. Great episode!
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BRUXXUS
Oh, as far as VOIP goes, it definitely DOES alter the pitch of tones. It was a whole big deal at my last job where trying to enter _ to reach blah blah wouldn t work. I discovered the issue, which the service used to resolve a years long issue for them. Now that I think about it I should have got a bounty for that! Haha
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Oh, as far as VOIP goes, it definitely DOES alter the pitch of tones. It was a whole big deal at my last job where trying to enter _ to reach blah blah wouldn t work. I discovered the issue, which the service used to resolve a years long issue for them. Now that I think about it I should have got a bounty for that! Haha
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Christian
Some friends and I picked up a couple of different brand answering machines with remotes and would call random numbers for businesses after hours to try and control their devices. I think it only ever worked once, but the anticipation of potentially changing someone s outgoing message was worth every call placed.
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Some friends and I picked up a couple of different brand answering machines with remotes and would call random numbers for businesses after hours to try and control their devices. I think it only ever worked once, but the anticipation of potentially changing someone s outgoing message was worth every call placed.
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Slamgod
We got ours in the era of micro cassettes. I remember that little thing driving my mother crazy. She was not, as they say, tech savvy. The announcement pretty much told the world that till one of us kids changed it.
The message you left could be sold to a studio for B or C movies, Clint. I hope you kept that.
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We got ours in the era of micro cassettes. I remember that little thing driving my mother crazy. She was not, as they say, tech savvy. The announcement pretty much told the world that till one of us kids changed it.
The message you left could be sold to a studio for B or C movies, Clint. I hope you kept that.
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Ian
I think it'd be cool if you gave the number to patreon members and then did Q&As where you sat in the 70s room, probably in a tacky chair while wearing a tacky robe, and played questions that were left on your answering machine.
I think that'd be appropriately lo-fi for LGR.
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I think it'd be cool if you gave the number to patreon members and then did Q&As where you sat in the 70s room, probably in a tacky chair while wearing a tacky robe, and played questions that were left on your answering machine.
I think that'd be appropriately lo-fi for LGR.
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discocrisco
My family had a tape based one, sometime in the late 80's. The greeting was stored in memory, but messages were written to tape. Most people would hang up on it, though. Would occasionally record whole calls if you picked up the phone exactly when it triggered.
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My family had a tape based one, sometime in the late 80's. The greeting was stored in memory, but messages were written to tape. Most people would hang up on it, though. Would occasionally record whole calls if you picked up the phone exactly when it triggered.
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