The keyspan adapter requires drivers, and they are still updated regularly.
Until the relatively recent full adoption of USB by PCs (Macs were the
first personal computer to use USB in 1997) RS232 was the universal
interface standard for peripherals, and made adoption of these devices
cross-plat
On 17/01/2013 18:42, Robert Sneidar wrote:
ALL USB devices are serial. That is what the S in USB stands for. You may mean
I think, that the protocol is similar to 9 pin protocols like RS232? I don't
think that is true, but I am not an expert in protocols.
Fair point. What I meant (or at leas
not even close. Adapter code and hardware needed.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> ALL USB devices are serial. That is what the S in USB stands for. You may
> mean I think, that the protocol is similar to 9 pin protocols like RS232? I
> don't think that is true, but I am
ALL USB devices are serial. That is what the S in USB stands for. You may mean
I think, that the protocol is similar to 9 pin protocols like RS232? I don't
think that is true, but I am not an expert in protocols.
Bob
On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
> Although... many USB d
Although... many USB devices are pretty much serial, and LC can work with them
just fine - eg I've interfaced to a bunch of GPS devices, on Windows and Mac,
all of which are USB in hardware but appear to be serial in software. I
wouldn't be at all surprised if a USB modem was similar.
On 15/0
yeah, that mean being stuck with RS-232 and a Keyspan USB adapter if
anything.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:07 AM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
> On 1/15/13 11:59 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>> USB modems are cheap and widely available.
>>
>
> Of course, there's the problem that LiveCode has no USB suppor
On 1/15/13 1:23 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
As I open the memory port and write "ponder," I read a dim response.
This was a time when modems had a dedicated serial port that was
supported in some version of HyperCard.
Yup, I think all versions of HC had that. And LiveCode does too, for
serial p
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 1/15/13 11:59 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
>> USB modems are cheap and widely available.
>
> Of course, there's the problem that LiveCode has no USB support.
>
Okay, I feel stupid now.
I must say, the dictionary entry for "write to driver"
On 1/15/13 11:59 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
USB modems are cheap and widely available.
Of course, there's the problem that LiveCode has no USB support.
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Thanks for all the thoughtful replies.
Maybe analog phone lines aren't completely obsolete.
Back to the original question, then
I only need to manipulate three phone lines. USB modems are cheap and widely
available. I think I can do everything I want -- answer, play recordings,
listen for
If asterisk will do what you want, but you don't have a spare machine to
run linux, using a vm with an asterisk implementation in it might work.
Virtual machines as services can work pretty well. (assuming you can get
the hardware to behave correctly)
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:37 AM, kee nethery
Asterisk is HUGE.
There is no reason to port it to Mac. All the cards are what make it so useful
and those are all for Linux. Odds are, if there is something that is telephony
based that you want done, you can probably configure Asterisk to do it.
You can get books on how to configure Asterisk
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Timothy Miller
wrote:
> It occurs to me I could probably make my own Virtual Receptionist application
> in LiveCode.
In the not too distant past it may have been easy.
This article was written around 2006:
http://www.macvoip.com/resources/voip_build_a_Mac_pbx.p
Thanks, Robert
I've been looking into the matter.
Apparently, POTS (plain old telephone service) also known as analog phone
lines, are the past. Telephone over the internet is the future, partly because
it's more flexible, partly because the bandwidth is much cheaper. The big
traditional phon
I think the reason for this is primarily the phasing out of modems. While a
modem can be purchased for this use, they don't typically come in computers by
default anymore. I think what you need to do is look to purchase a Macintosh
compatible telephony modem, which will probably come with softwa
Hello,
I have to re-think my telephone system for business use. There's only one
employee, me, and I usually can't answer the phone, but I want callers to have
a convenient user-friendly experience, and to reach me when they need to. Some
kind of simple auto-attendant, the ability to transfer a
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