Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

Martin Schneider of the website "Dangerous Minds" reviews a series of pre-recorded outgoing messages made by Radio Shack in the 1980s when home... Radio Shack's Answering Machine Messages Were Hip To ...

You never knew what kind of machine greeting you'd hear when you called someone in the 80s. That's what made it so fun! The new "Star Wars-stricken culture" had not only begun to normalize the robotic ...