Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!pic.ucla.edu!jimmy From: jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: VOICE POWER boards -- What are their limitations? Message-ID: <13873@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 88 09:11:35 GMT References: <402@icus.UUCP> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU (Jim Gottlieb) Organization: UCLA Program In Computing Lines: 25 In article <402@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >I'm interested in the capabilities of the VOICE POWER boards. Firstly, > [...] >quote as high as $1300 and as low as $800. Is anyone selling one used? > >What can it do? Does it come with the software so you can program it >yourself? What kind of programming libraries does it come with and I too was very interested in the Voice Power board. The ability to send e-mail and attach voice piqued my curiosity. The lowest price I found was $708 from Hamilton-Avnet. But that's just for the board. Any programming has to be done in C. If you want a user-friendly programming interface, you must buy the Voice Power Design Tools for a mere $731. The answering machine software for $325 sounds pretty lame. I also am not impressed with the sound quality of the Voice Power Board. In summation, it would be kinda' fun, but I couldn't justify spending $1450 for a home answering machine that would only answer one line. For $900 I can buy a four-line card from Dialogic (if I had a MS-DOS or Xenix machine to plug it in to). If anyone wants to sell me one cheap, please feel free. Jim Gottliebor