On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > >> I'd like to get rid of most of the machines I have in the office and the >> first one I'd like to get rid if the Fax/Phone. >> >> I'd like to plug the phone line into the Mac (through USB ?) and get/dial my >> calls and faxes directly through the Mac. >> >> Is that feasible ? Does that involve black magic ? > > The Mac USB modem could do this. Apple stopped selling it years ago. You > could find a second-hand one, but I'm not positive OS X has working drivers > for it anymore.
I bought it then. I did not use it much though. But it is still around. > However, I still send faxes (when I have to anymore, which is not often) by > hooking up my dumb flip-phone with its USB cable and configuring it as a fax > modem, so it would probably still work. Ok, so the fax side is kind of solved. But what I am looking for is a way to not use a phone/fax machine at all anymore. My idea is that I'd plug the line into a USB Modem, and from there I'd use the iMac's microphone and speakers to talk on the phone, with a software dialer. The machine would handle the answering machine part and the lost calls part. As for the faxes, they'd be stored as images etc. Jean-Christophe Helary ---------------------------------------- fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en > fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
