Speak the Calling DN - Like DTI Test Phone

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Speak the Calling DN - Like DTI Test Phone GHTROUT 08-23-2006
Posted by GHTROUT on August 23, 2006, 5:42 pm
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There was a company that made a 2616 set emulator - about the size of a
modem. You plugged it in and when you called the box, it spoke back
the DN you were calling from. It could also call you back if you
wanted. Company is out of biz.

I am trying to get some other company to make a product like this again
- who does not matter - just a company that could be convinced there
was a market for such a contraption, and at a minimal cost.

If you can spare 3 mouse clicks, go here:
http://www.winnmug.org/speakdn


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Posted by Bob on August 23, 2006, 7:24 pm
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> There was a company that made a 2616 set emulator - about the size of a
> modem. You plugged it in and when you called the box, it spoke back
> the DN you were calling from. It could also call you back if you
> wanted. Company is out of biz.
>
> I am trying to get some other company to make a product like this again
> - who does not matter - just a company that could be convinced there
> was a market for such a contraption, and at a minimal cost.
>
> If you can spare 3 mouse clicks, go here:
> http://www.winnmug.org/speakdn>

If you've got Symposium, you can do it with about a five line script. Of
course, this thing is VERY useful if you don't



Posted by Chris Romero on August 23, 2006, 10:18 pm
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Not really out of biz. Digital Techniques was acquired by MCK. Which then
became Verso and then went back to being MCK. Similar to the stupidity of
the SonicBlue and GoVideo mess a while back.

Anyway, the reason the box cease production as a lack of components. Nortel
stopped making one of the parts they used. And the team found they could
not produce more and stay in budget. At least not at the time. With
today's FPGAs, DSPs, and MCs I bet anything is possible.

I guess production would have ended anyway even with available parts because
of the management changes.

I have one of those little boxes up at work. Still worth every bit of
change we spent on it. And does not require an external power brick since
it runs off of the power provided by the line card.

--

Sincerely,

Chris
cromero at romero dot org

>> There was a company that made a 2616 set emulator - about the size of a
>> modem. You plugged it in and when you called the box, it spoke back
>> the DN you were calling from. It could also call you back if you
>> wanted. Company is out of biz.
>>
>> I am trying to get some other company to make a product like this again
>> - who does not matter - just a company that could be convinced there
>> was a market for such a contraption, and at a minimal cost.
>>
>> If you can spare 3 mouse clicks, go here:
>> http://www.winnmug.org/speakdn>
>
> If you've got Symposium, you can do it with about a five line script. Of
> course, this thing is VERY useful if you don't
>



Posted by GHTROUT on August 23, 2006, 11:33 pm
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Chris Romero wrote:
> Not really out of biz. Digital Techniques was acquired by MCK. Which then
> became Verso and then went back to being MCK. Similar to the stupidity of
> the SonicBlue and GoVideo mess a while back.
>
> Anyway, the reason the box cease production as a lack of components. Nortel
> stopped making one of the parts they used. And the team found they could
> not produce more and stay in budget. At least not at the time. With
> today's FPGAs, DSPs, and MCs I bet anything is possible.
>
> I guess production would have ended anyway even with available parts because
> of the management changes.
>
> I have one of those little boxes up at work. Still worth every bit of
> change we spent on it. And does not require an external power brick since
> it runs off of the power provided by the line card.
>
OK, I admit it - I have one too, but I'd like to add one at our next
largest site :-)

I have no doubt I and countless other lurkers could find someone to
make this box in a minimal config of "reads back your number" within a
few hours just by calling any of a few other electrical engineer pals -
plus 5 or 10 trips to Radio Shack. But I think a number of existing
products made today could be tweaked to read back the number and maybe
much more.

Hallmark sells 90 second songs inside a greeting card - they useed to
sell cards you could record into. I have a gig of drive space on my
keyring and my cell phone can ask me a question if it doesen't
understand what I said. Seems to me someone could build a thing that
would be as widely assigned to techs as punchown tools are. Just plug
into and digital set jack and it can read display, detect too loud or
too quiet, cinfirm "you sound better" or "you sound worse" ....and when
misplaced, call and tell you where it's plugged in :-)


Posted by Brian Gorham on September 18, 2006, 10:02 pm
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Do you have a sample script that you have used to do this? Are you willing
to share?

>> There was a company that made a 2616 set emulator - about the size of a
>> modem. You plugged it in and when you called the box, it spoke back
>> the DN you were calling from. It could also call you back if you
>> wanted. Company is out of biz.
>>
>> I am trying to get some other company to make a product like this again
>> - who does not matter - just a company that could be convinced there
>> was a market for such a contraption, and at a minimal cost.
>>
>> If you can spare 3 mouse clicks, go here:
>> http://www.winnmug.org/speakdn>
>
> If you've got Symposium, you can do it with about a five line script. Of
> course, this thing is VERY useful if you don't
>



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