Record phone calls

[Gil]

I have several Macs and a Global Village Teleport modem. Is there a software for 68k or PPC 6xx Classic Mac that will record phone calls via the modem?

 

[porter]

Apple did a whole Telephony architecture for the classic mac. I don't know off hand what applications use it.

Make sure what you are doing is legal.

 

[Dog Cow]

You must have the permission of everyone involved in the conversation in order to record it.

 

[~Coxy]

You must have the permission of everyone involved in the conversation in order to record it.

Depends on the state and circumstance, though.

Illinois is, by statute, a two-party state. However, case law from both the IL Supreme Court and various Illinois appellate courts have declared Illinois a one-party state in the case of private citizens (businesses and plain folks - NOT law enforcement). The reigning consensus is that one-party consensual recording is merely "enhanced note-taking" and since some folks have total recall without recording, how can the other party have any expectation of privacy to a conversation held with another person.
Illinois requires prior consent of all participants to monitor or record a phone conversation. Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 38, Sec. 14-2. There is no specific business telephone exception, but in general courts have found extension telephones do not constitute eavesdropping devices. Criminal penalties for unlawful eavesdropping include up to three years' imprisonment or $10,000 in fines and the civil remedy provides for recovery of actual and punitive damages.

In the state of Illinois it is illegal to monitor cordless phones.

 

[wood_e]

I remember an app that came with my Performa 6300 called "mega phone" - it did quite a bit IIRC...

 

[register]

You might contact Siegfried Hartmann of Hartmann Software and get an old version of CoMa Mac.

 

[register]

You might contact Siegfried Hartmann of Hartmann Software and get an old version of CoMa Mac. The Classic version should work with Sys. 8.6 or newer. The capabilities of the software depend to the properties of the modem in use. Siegfried might be willing to adjust the software to a given modem on demand; just ask.

 

[Bunsen]

The first generation PPC Macs (x100 Nubus Powermacs) could do this (as well as send and receive faxes, play outgoing answering machine messages etc) using a Geoport modem - IMHO the only good thing about those CPU hogging dongles.