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- From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: ISDN System Adapter or Extender?
- Message-ID: <BszJAx.40L@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:59:20 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.173943.19528@eecs.nwu.edu> <v75mh!f.abell@netcom.com>
- Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
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- In article <v75mh!f.abell@netcom.com> abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) writes:
- >garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I. Chang) writes:
- >
- >> Now, here's the tough choice......
- >> Should I go ahead and buy a Supra 14.4 or wait for the ISDN Extender which
- >> will also provide software FAX and MODEM at the speed of 64K bits/sec?
- >
- >Answer: Do you care about tying up your DSP? If not, the ISDN Extender is
- >a pretty good deal. But if you ever need your 56000, you'll wish you'd bought
- >something else.
- >
- >Using the DSP for FAX/Modem/AnsweringMachine is a great idea, but for the fact
- >that most users will want these functions to run unattended *regardless* of
- >what else is going on. If your Apps ever use the DSP, you're sunk.
- >
- >What we really need is an *external* box with:
- >
- >1) A SCSI connector, a parallel port, and a serial port;
- >
- >2) An ISDN port and *TWO* loop-thru POTS jacks;
- >
- >3) A 56000, a control processor, and an *optional* hard disk;
- >
- >4) A bunch of software.
- >
- >This is the ultimate phone machine. It connects to *any computer ever made*
- >and provides FAX/Data/Voice processing with a very small load on its host.
- >Since bulk transfers happen over the SCSI or Parallel port, audio transfers
- >to the host can proceed at a reasonable (faster than realtime) rate. With
- >the serial port, benighted programs that access serial ports directly can
- >still be used. With the optional hard disk, your phone traffic is still
- >handled even when your computer is off.
- >
- >Are there any manufacturers listening out there? Please reread the part
- >about connecting to any computer ever made if you want to estimate the
- >size of the market.
- >
- >I approached the VP of Marketing of a major manufacturer of telcom stuff
- >about this. He ran around in circles frantically: "We need to do this, but we
- >can't market it, but we really need to do this, but we don't know how to
- >market it, but we have to do this, but...". You get the idea.
- >
- >There are several non-obvious aspects to the design of this critter, which I
- >will be happy to expound upon if anyone is interested, but
- >
- > Will somebody PLEASE build this machine?
- >
- >Steve abell@netcom.com
-
-
-
- Yes, yes, yes, ooh more; voice and fax capabilities with the computer off;
- ooh nore, how much, I want it, I'm sold. Up! Too bad. It doesn't exist.
-
- Maybe next year.
-
- maurices
-