List, Check out the local phone company answering service. Our company has an 800 number that we can use when we're out of town to check our messages. We can leave messages for each other on this number. Transfer messages to other mail box holders to hear the 'real' inflection of the voice. The message can be slowed down to unravel the phone number/name/problem from the fast talkers. Replay/skip message/ erase/ save in archive/repeat - all with a touch of a button. No more waiting for the tape to rewind/replay. No more box on the desk for me. Joel >Z, I used to use answering machines then our local phone company offered >an awnsering service through them. You don't have to worry about tapes , >power failures or machine break downs. The cost per month isn't all that >much either. >Dick > > > >On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 22:33:39 -0400 "Z! Reinhardt" ><diskladame@provide.net> writes: >>---------- >>> From: Tom Cole <tcole@cruzio.com> >>> >> >>> If your sound quality >>> is getting poor, you might try cleaning the heads with alcohol and >>> cotton swabs. >> >>> Tom >>> -- >> >>Also, demagnetize them periodically. Radio Shack carries a device for >>about $30.00. Sometimes they look something like a probe, but >>sometimes >>you can get one that is housed in a standard cassette. >> >>[Wish it was that easy to enhance the sound quality of digital >>machines -- >>the one I had made everything sound like it was underwater. Everybody >>who >>left messages on that machine commented "You need to change the tape >>-- it >>sounds AWFUL!" and it wasn't a tape at all.] >> >>Z! Reinhardt RPT >>Ann Arbor MI >>diskladame@provide.net >> > >_____________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com >Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] Keep In Tune Joel A. Jones jajones2@facstaff.wisc.edu UW-Madison http://uwpianos.music.wisc.edu/ 1501 Humanities 455 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706
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