Caller ID on PC

bordercars

Can anyone help a numpty,

we are a 2 car taxi running from home, we have a business line from BT right next to my pc. at the moment we have an amstrad emailer , it has a large screen display, 200 number memory and answermachine. the phone is spot on, 2 problems we have a call everyday to a premium number cost involved and it's also the 3rd phone over the years and the backlight will go soon as per the others. What i would like to do is split the phone line, 1 to a regular phone for the calls but also to have the phone book stored into the pc and enable caller id. any suggestions please.

bordercars

mmmh. 30views in 2 hours others must be interested. bump

fwor

There's lots of freeware/shareware utilities available for both number dialling and software-based answering machines. The only extra hardware you would need in the PC is a fax modem, and they are cheap these days.

Just Google for "dialer software" or "answering machine software" and you'll find loads like this:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Search/answering_machine.html

bordercars

iv'e read about problems with certain modems, mostly older articles, are they now at the bulletproof stage for simpletons like me