#Phone Pak
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Could someone give me a list of features for GVP's Phone Pak? I
haven't seen an ad for them in a while and I'm curoius about getting one.
You can call GVP and they will mail you the specs on Phone Pak, thats what
I did <G>. If you can't wiat that long, c-mail me your fax number and
I'll fax what I received to you. I plan on ordering one shortly, just as
soon as I get over the shock of my recent tax payment <G>.
=Rick=
I sent in one of those reader service cards requesting info on several
GVP products as well as other venders. Most of the stuff from the other
venders has arrived but nothing from GVP yet. I'll give them a few more
days then give them a call. Thanks for your fax offer but I don't have a
fax.
> Could someone give me a list of features for GVP's Phone Pak? I
>haven't seen an ad for them in a while and I'm curoius about getting one.
There are too many things to list here, and the product information sheet is
several pages long. I would suggest that you contact GVP's Customer Services
department at 610-354-9495 and they can send the literature to you.
GVP TECH
Thanks, I have called the voice mail number to order info on Phone
Pak. By the way, does Phone Pak take a lot of hard drive space when you
digitize voices?
Hi
I've given phonePak it's own 20MB partition. It's never gone past 65%
full. There was about 30 voice messages and 6 fax's.
This should give you an idea about how much hard disk space needed.
-Gary
Gary Giles
Yap Yap all the way from the UK Via Autopilot
Do you use Phone Pak AS a business or FOR your own business?
Hi
We use it for home. There are 3 mail box's – Master, this is the default
if the person calling dose not have a touch tone phone. 1 for my
girlfriend who is a freelance violinst and 1 for myself. We were going to
buy a Fax machine anyway which is about the same price. Having call
forwarding is realy useful as we both have mobile phones.
-Gary
Gary Giles
Yap Yap all the way from the UK Via Autopilot
Leslie, the PhonePak records about 9K per second. You can figure out how
much space you'll need from how many calls you normally get and how long
they are. There is a low quality recording mode that you can use when you
are low on space or when you are going to be gone a long time. You won't
want to use the low quality recording mode all the time though.
-Jerry
Thanks for the information. How much RAM does Phone Pak need to
operate? Can more than one phone line be run into each Phone Pak board?
Can multiple Phone Paks be pluged into the same Amiga?
PhonePak uses about 600K of disk space for all the files and default
system sounds and messages. So 3 meg of free hard drive space before
installation will allow a usable configuration.
The program, Lineman, has to be running in order to automatically answer
incoming calls and FAXes and it only takes up about 60K of RAM. The user
interface requires about 200K of Fast and 100K of chip. The largest FAX
display mode requires about 350K of chip RAM. You just might be able to
squeeze everything into a 512K chip/512K fast RAM system, but everything
will work fine if you have 1 meg of chip RAM. Of course, if you have an
A3000 you will need some kind of Zorro card with RAM in it to make
PhonePak work.
You cannot run multiple lines into a single PhonePak card. One line into
the card, one line out of the card to a modem of phone. You can have
multiple PhonePaks in one machine and the software can be flexibly
configured to answer (or not answer) each line in different ways.
-Jerry Thompson
Thanks for the VERY complete information. I got GVP's info today. It,
and your messages, have been helpful.
Gettinng back to RAM; from your message can I assume that more than 1
meg of chip RAM on an A2000 isn't needed or even helpful?
More than 1 meg of chip ram is not needed and won't buy you anything when
running one or even 2 instances of PhonePak.
Of course if you want to simultaneously run 3 or more copies of PhonePak
AND open 3 or more hires FAX screens, then 2 meg (or more?) of chip ram
would help. I have done this, BTW. On an A3000 with 2 meg chip, a large
Workbench screen and AutoPilot running, I still had over 300K chip ram
left.
-Jerry Thompson
I've been thinking of running a voice mail service and I was interested
in Phone Pak hardware and software. Thanks very much for the information.
Could you tell me if PhonePak can do this: Generate a call and if
there is no answer after, say, 10 rings, dial another number? Can
PhonePak also generate a call if a number has been busy after a certain
number of hours? Thanks.
If you are not afraid of ARexx programming, you could write scripts to do
the two things you described. PhonePak has a very simple command
sequencing capability by itself. It is very weird to program the
PhonePak. You can't do everything through ARexx, so you have to write
some PhonePak scripts, but you can't do anything sophisticated with the
internal command sequencing so you need to call ARexx scripts…
You wind up with a PhonePak sequence executing when the phone is answered
which calls an Arexx script. The Arexx script will call a different
PhonePak script. And you have to create multiple PhonePak "dummy"
mailboxes to load new "states" (playback messages and touch tone menus).
Nothing terribly difficult. It's just a strange hybrid of ARexx, command
sequencing, and using phone mailboxes for controlling the branching. A
very unusual discipline of "programming."
So, yes, I think it would be possible to do what you wanted. But you'll
need some ARexx experience and something like AmigaCRON to kick off an
ARexx script at a certain time.
-Jerry