Tom,  I would agree with you.  We have a new very mice system but our
caller id is not useable by blind staff who cannot read the lcd as we
have a mix of digital and analogue spread spectrum wireless handsets and
nether the company nor us have found a source of voice caller id  that
will work with this pc based (Linux) with a windows interface system.  

We can get caller id on voice mail but not on incoming calls.  We have a
ups but I seriously doubt that our system would work if there were no
power.  Our old system wood hit the switchboard only for 1 hour before
ultimately dying.  

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:36 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: off topic telephone systems

Terry,
It's pretty simple most likely, either too cheap to do it the good way
or
too ignorant to realize the need.

Surely there are modern phone switchboards with battery backup, they
just didn't
buy one.

Don't however ask about accessible phone switch boards, that's a sad
subject
these days.

73s
Tom WA6IVG