Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

Just a decade ago, telephone answering machines were the butt of jokes, the object of scorn. Widely available since the late 1970s, they were just a blip on the consumer scene in the early ’80s. As ...

There should be a special place in heaven for people who do not have telephone answering devices, one of the most annoying mechanisms to be brought forth out of modern technology. Americans will buy ...

This morning I mentioned my telephone answering machine in passing and a colleague reacted as though I had just confessed to still having an 8-track in my car. “You must be the last person on the ...

An LPC2138 ARM7 RISC microcontroller is used to build The Active Mansion Telephone Answering Machine (TAM-TAM) which can support multiuser interface An LPC2138 ARM7 RISC microcontroller is used to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1971, PhoneMate introduced the ...

In one of the newest wrinkles in telephone technology, computers are helping companies answer the phone when employees are busy. These voice message systems do more than answering machines do. The ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...