On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
No I don't have one, nor ever owned one (though I
was given the base and
the original box by the same guy who gave me my color Canon AS-100).
What is one worth? Since I didn't have the actual phone, I chucked it.
Stupid? It has to be a rare item.
I had a few of them. 900MHz, not very reliable. Nice IDEA, to use a PC
to run a phone - I had always wanted an answering machine that would use
the caller-ID, instead of my having to decipher mumbles; click on the
display to hear the message; alternate click to dial, etc. Well it almost
worked.
No two line version, which is why I had more than one.
MICROS~1 stated that it could also function as a TDD (Deaf TTY -
CCITT18?), but nobody in their "tech support" could come up with HOW to
get it to do it - they would literally read aloud the marketing spec
promise, declare that "YES, it can do it", and then not be able to figure
out "what to click on".
It needed manual intervention to recover from power glitches.
Meanwhile, for regular TELEPHONE use, Uniden had a 2-line 900MHz that had
a "spare recharger" in the base, letting the machine continue working
normally during power outages, AND permitting swapping of batteries to
always have a charged one on hand.