DOS answering machine ??? --> Complete PC

Chuck Guzis 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