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How much does it cost
to go Oft Telex?
You could go Me conventional way and buy a dedicated Telex machine. The cheapest will
cost you E1,604 (the \ILthisper), Me dearest E2,892 the Cheetah). You will also need a
separate telephone line, costing E101 to install, plus E404 a year rental, That's a total outlay
over the first year of a minimum of E2,109 lAil prices include VAT.)
Or you could do what more and more Amiga Computing use are doing — use your
computer to double as a Telex machine. And Just use your ordinary telephone!
How do I turn my Amiga
Into a Telex machine?
All you need is a modem and appropriate communications software isee the
adverusements in this issue), a telephone, and a subsCription to MicroLink.
Telex is just one of a growing number of senfices available to Amiga Computing users On
Microlink. With MicroUnk you can also read the news as it happens, go teleshopping
,create your own closed user group, send telemessages and electronic malt right round
the wo(ld, download free programs directly into your micro and much more
Because it's a standard means of instant communication been businesses Today
there are 150,000 Telex machines in use in Britain - and more than 2 million
worldwide Telex dramatically speed up business communications — it's just as quick
as using the phone but far more efficient, because you have a hard copy of every
"conversation- for your records.
But there's a big bonus you get when you use MicroLink for Telex that the
conventional way doesn't offer.
With Microtink you don't HAVE to be in your office to send or receive Telex
messages, You can just as easily use your computer at home or even a portable)
,So now you can check whether there are any Telex messages waiting for you -
anywhere, anytime. How's that for your business efficiency?
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