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- From: F.Farzin-nia@lut.ac.uk (F Farzin_nia)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Mystery Gadget
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.104625.17864@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 10:46:25 GMT
- Reply-To: F.Farzin-nia@lut.ac.uk (F Farzin_nia)
- Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
- Lines: 45
-
- Dear All,
-
- I have a 'I don't know what this piece of kit is' question :-) A friend of
- mine recently bought a piece of kit from an electronic junk shop for me,
- thinking that it was a telephone answering machine (you see, I had asked a lot
- of friends to keep an eye out for a second
- hand answering machine and if they were to find a reasonable one to
- purchase it on my behalf). On close inspection of this rather curious
- and wonderful gadget, I realised there is a lot more to it than meets
- the eye. However, I simply cannot figure out what it is. This thing is
- manufactured by LANIER BUSINESS PRODUCTS, INC (Atlanta, Georgia, USA),
- and it has a MODEL P-101 printed underneath it. It resembles a telephone
- answering machine/dictating machine/modem. It has a speaker but no
- mic. There is a small tape recorder with the associated buttons plus a
- 'telephone' push button on the console. The other switches and buttons
- on this machine which are located around and underneath it are:
- DIC-CONF; OFF-SCAN; MIC-SPK; RECALL-1.2.3; A headset jack socket; a
- record gain knob; telephone jack socket; a TOTAL and a RESET button;
- three knobs that control SPEED (presumably that of the recorder), TONE
- and VOLUME; and finally a SCART like socket. Incidentally, there are
- some 7-segment led displays on the console to show 'unit no.', 'complete
- units', 'instruction' and 'location' for DICTATE option and 'unit no.',
- 'total units', 'remaninig length' and 'instruction' for the TRANSCRIBE
- option.
-
- If any of you have ever come across a gadget like the above
- please let me know what it is (and how it operates, if possible!).
-
-
- Regards,
- -Farzin.
-
- P.S. Sorry for the long winded article. I am only trying to give as much
- information as possible.
-
-
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