TELEFLEXAWARD 1988
Articles TFLX PAX:
1) MacWorld
Face Mail PAX 90
2) MacWEEK Microsoft Mail Video Mail Aug 90
3) MacWEEK Videophone for Mac Mar 90
Magnum Software's TFLX combines hardware and software to make a telephone system do everything from basic voice mail to automated order entry and automated outgoing calls. Now Magnum is shipping special software for using video phones with a TFLX setup, and the company is preparinga $500
unit with many of the
$2995 TFLX's capabilities
The PAX (Picture Audio Express) video option
transmits slow-scan video images to a Mac with a TFLX unit from either a stand-alone
video phone or from a Mac Connected to another TFLX unit. PAX can send images
from high resolution and color video phones, but can only edit 98-by-98-pixel
images at 64 levels of gray-that size image takes about five seconds to transmit.
Video telephone technology is still in its infancy. Simple
black-and-white units range from $300 to $600, and image quality is not impressive
(on the 98-by-98-pixel screen it seems as if you could grab pixels with a
pair of tweezers)
The PAX option provides additional commands to use in TFLX Creator scripts
for drawing images on the screen, storing them on disk, and managing database
like access to incoming and outgoing images. A user with
modifying image size,
and other basic editing tasks.
Magnum Software is also developing a stripped-down $500 unit, called the TFLX-VM
(Voice Mail). It will lack the modem, BRS port (for remote control of household
appliances), and some other features of the full TFLX and the software will
lack support for the variables and equations necessary for order entry and
other complex tasks. But the TFLX-VM will support many of the TFLX's
neat features, in eluding PAX and the ability to convert text E-mail messages
to speech using either Macintalk or a database of several thousand digitized
spoken words. More sophisticated software is also in the works for the TFLX-VM.
The PAX option is free to registered TFLX owners. For more information contact
Magnum Software in Chatsworth, California, at 818-701-5051.
-Mary Margaret Lewis
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