DOS answering machine ??? --> Complete PC

[Bob]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:09:22 -0700, jim stephens wrote:

>I don't have a modem based answering machine, but a 286 dos box
>running CompletePC.  It involved an add in board set of some number
>of revisions.

>The company was one of those with the "we have the best ever, look
>out" attitude and were not that great.  Nor was the technology open
>so that other things could be done with it, but it was workable, and I
>ran it for probably 10 or 12 years.

>I just saw my pile of stuff that ran it, if anyone else ran it.

>I think the dregs of the company after it imploded was bought up
>by Boca research, and then vanished.

>It ran nicely on a 286 system and dos for the time, and really
>didn't ever run well with Windows.  I never liked the windows
>interface when I tried it, and stayed with the dos box.

>The thing it offered was remote retrieval of messages, and I could
>do some amount of remote control with a dial in.

>Jim

I signed up as a dealor for the CompletePC about 1985'ish when I ran into them at comdex.
It supported 99 mailboxes and switch hook forwarding of calles if you had MaBells
Centrex lines which supported dialing 9 for an outside call and direct dialing of other extension.

There was a guy in Dayton Ohio that buily a multi-line system using the
CompletePC cards who purchased my extra cards about 12-15 years back.

I kept one, it is in an IDR 386/16 boxed away in storage with the optional fax scanner.

The windows 3.1 version left a lot to be desired, I always ran the DOS version.

The other Bob