CompuServe Thread

I'll try to answer this one. It depends what you mean by a trunk line. Say a trunk line can bring in 3 simultaneous calls. They actually enter a building as 3 different phone numbers even though a caller calls one number, i.e., if the first line on the trunk is in use, it rolls to the second, or third, etc. But you knew this, right? So basically all you do is have one PhonePak board for each actual line coming in on the trunk. As far as voice mail boxes – you can have as many as you like. 400 would be no problem. You have all kinds of system administration functions too, of course, like passwords, limiting message length, etc.

> …I think your saying you can put in as many boards as you > have Zorro slots? Yes. > To send a fax do you print to the fax board as with Intel's satisfaxtion? > (What we are using now). Basically you run Prefs/Printer and select the PhonePak fax driver as the printer of choice and anything that goes to PRT: will be churned into a fax. You have a number of options, such as entering a phone number to fax to immediately, or a mailbox to store the fax in for later sending/scheduling, or even a group fax. > Do you maintain fax's if you reboot while sending a "group". Yes. To send to a group, you first generate the fax and store it in a mailbox — this is all rather automatic, you simply print and answer a question or two — and if you reboot, the fax is still on your hard drive. (Unlike NetSatisfaction which deletes fax image files…) > Do you receive faxes on it? We tried that on the Intel and if we recived > several it slowed to a crawl, possibly a memory thing. Yes I do receive faxes, and since the board uses DMA the Amiga barely even notices an incoming fax, let alone multiple faxes. Since I am running only a single line, I can't even tell when a fax is arriving unless I look at the status indicator. > Roughly what does a board cost? You should contact your local dealer or check the latest AmigaWorld for pricing… > What other stuff does it do? Isn't there a voice mail and/or answering machine > capabilities? The PhonePak product is great for a LARGE number of uses. As it ships, it can be an answering machine, a small business VoiceMail system, an automated information attendant, and much, much more. It is ARexx controllable so the possibilities are endless. The tutorials in the manual walk you through setting up a number of systems, each with more complex and "fun" features. There's even a Movie Theater / Cinema example where a caller punches buttons on the phone to find out about currently showing movies in various theaters, and has the option of paging a real live attendant; and the system is set up so that anyone sitting next to the Amiga has NO IDEA when someone is on the phone unless they watch the status bar or they get paged. It's perfect for a quite office!