[BC] Call screener software

[Dana Puopolo]

Telos has been selling that kind of software for years to go with their phone
interfaces. Gentner also made it for theirs, but I believe they;re gone. Not
sure if Comrex makes one-though a call screener is integrated into their STAC
system (which runs on free BSD by the way).

The Telos software was originally written for me at the old WHDH in 1990 by a
guy named Charlie Case. I noticed the serial ports on the Telos 100 and called
Charlie to see if we could integrate them into some kind of screener software
(we were using software written for the RS Color Computer at the time). The
original software used CGA cards and displayed 40 column composite video on a
standard video monitor. It ran in DOS on a 286 with two megs of RAM.

It worked so well that Telos licensed it from Charlie and the rest is
history....

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:48:44 PM EDT
From: "Andy Linton" <alinton at iol.ie>
To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: [BC] Call screener software

Hi all,

We've written some software which, with the aid of a little external
interface, displays on your screen a phone caller's number, and links it to
a database into which you put the caller's name, address etc.

The first time someone calls you'd put in their location, name etc and you
can enter if they've won a contest, if they are a regular caller, if they
are a 'prize pig' and any special comment you wish.

Then next time they call, before you pick up, you have their record on the
screen. An assistant can enter the info, and the talent, looking at another
PC on the LAN can see what's going on. 

Ideal I think for talk shows or indeed any show that gets callers.

IS there anything like this already available commercially in the US, and do
you think any stations there would be interested in it?

Comments appreciated.

Rgds

Andy.


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