NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/hardware/22488

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From: [e-mail] (Jon Sreekanth)
Subject: Re: Resetting a computer by phone
In-Reply-To: [e-mail]'s message of Sat, 22 Aug 92 19:49:02 CDT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Bill Shymanski) writes:

   and so un-hung.   Really ugly, but we had a surplus Radio Shack answering
   machine and an extra phone line.  You would need one that has a
   remote access code to record a new message.   The main advantage is
   not having to build anything from scratch that connects either to
   the phone line or the computer.
     I wonder why someone doesn't build a card that can do this ?

There are two products I've seen ads for :  they advertise in the
back pages of Computer Shopper, for example see p 834 of CS July 92.
One is Remote Access from Vant Systems, $129.95, 818-706-1733,
and the other is "Remote Computer Switch!" from 800-226-2122, $119.95
(no  company name, address or non-800 number). The pictures look sort of
similar, maybe they're the same product ? Anyway, it says it's
DTMF controlled, can switch on/off a unit connected to it.

/ Jon Sreekanth

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