Revolution Telephony

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 10:56 PM, sims wrote:

> Bill, back on Oct 19  2002 you posted:
>
>> I would like to use the built in modem to dial a phone number. I want
>> to build a simple phone directory and allow dialing from it. (I'd also
>> like to get CallerID info too but that is very much secondary.)
>
>
> Did you get anywhere with this? I'd be interested in seeing what is 
> out there
> already for this. I want to chart/track my phone bill here.

I would like to see what's out there in Revolution telephony, too, and 
to encourage it.

My 660AV was my second Mac.  I got it because Apple billed it as a 
personal telephony system as well as a cool Mac.  Well, it didn't have 
the software to be a personal telephony system.  It had some limited 
hardware and a DSP chip.  After bugging Apple and getting no response, 
I decided to build a personal telephony plugin for Arrange from Common 
Knowledge.  (I was also making a form-based scripting plugin.)  Common 
Knowledge dropped (sold) the product and all that went up in smoke.

Apple in recent times has crippled the modem as far as telephony 
applications go.

However, there seems to be an interest at Apple in Bluetooth, so simple 
telephony capability may come through that.

There are some Mac telephony products coming back, but they have to 
deal with the same limitations.

Dar Scott