If you want people to be able to leave you a message while you are indisposed or away from home, you can use a telephone answering machine. An answering machine plays a recording of your greeting when someone calls, and then records the caller's message, which you can play back later. The Sony Tam-100 answering machine connects to your phone line and will start recording messages for you after you follow a few simple operating instructions to set it up.
Instructions
Connect Cords
1. Unplug the telephone cord of your phone from the wall phone jack. Plug one end of the supplied phone cord to the phone jack on your wall, and the other end to the "Tel" jack on the back of your Sony Tam-100 answering machine.
2. Plug the telephone's cord to the "Line" jack on the back of the answering machine.
3. Connect the AC power adaptor to the "DC IN" 12V jack on the back of the answering machine and plug it into to an outlet.
Preparation
4. Press the "Set/Rec" button, then the "Time" button. A voice will guide you to set the day, which you select by pressing the "Skip" or "Repeat" button to go through the days of the week until you reach the current day.
5. Press the "Set" button. The voice will continue to guide you to set the time.
6. Press the "Set/Rec" button to save these settings, and you will hear a long confirmation beep, followed by the current day and time.
Greeting
7. Press the "Set/Rec" button, then the "Greeting" button. You will hear a beep.
8. Speak your greeting, remaining about 12 inches from the microphone.
9. Press the "Set/Rec" button to stop recording. The machine replays the greeting for you.
Answer
10. Press the "Set/Rec" button, then press the "Skip/Quick" button. A voice will prompt you to enter the number of rings you want before the machine answers for you. Press the "Skip" or "Repeat" button until you reach the number of rings you want, and then press the "Set" button.
11. Press the "Set/Rec" button to save the number of rings setting.
12. Press the "Answer On/Off" button to make it light up red. The Sony Tam-100 is now ready to answer calls for you.
13. Press the "Mail Box 1" button to play back messages when the display indicates messages have been recorded while you were away. Press the "Skip/Quick" button to advance to the next message.
14. Press the "Erase" button to delete your messages. You can only delete messages after you have played them back.
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