answer mode

The computer in answer mode was still daring the perpetrator to try again.

I'd indefinitely banished Margaret from her office and the computer was to be left in answer mode.

I left the computer in answer mode so you could dial in from home if you wanted to.

We routinely leave the computer in answer mode so either Margaret or I can dial in after hours.

Telephone answering mode answers outside calls and takes a message from any outside caller (either because the extension was busy or rang no-answer).

And so forth, the boy answering every time, the answers being unimportant to the Witch except in that they set his mind in an answering mode.

There's no way anyone used my computer, because you can't use it when it's in answer mode unless you're at another PC and dialing in by modem."

Seating myself before the computer, I deactivated answer mode, and momentarily the case screen was before us, a pleasing orange and blue construction of Margaret's design.

When the server was down or frozen, as was true when it was in answer mode, the dumb terminals were down or frozen, too.

To fill this role, some modems included the ability to pick up the phone automatically when it was in answer mode, clearing the line when the other user manually disconnected.

Bill was standing right over me last Monday night when I activated answer mode and set the echo on again as if I were inviting the perpetrator to try again.

The Smartmodem was not necessary for BBS use, other modems could be left in "answer mode", but the Smartmodem made operation dramatically simpler on the user end by allowing the easy dialing of any number of BBS systems.

However, the system required special attention (special room, special power, air conditioning, etc.) and had major limitations, for example, it was physically large, expensive, limited to 1,000 users, had no telephone answering mode (could not answer outside calls), and had to be taken out of service to make administrative changes to the user data base.

The answering machine had a rather serious problem in that, if it was in "answer mode" and was inactivated (perhaps by a mains power failure), when the power was restored, it would not return to "answer mode" until the user manually restored it to such using a switch on the front of the machine.