On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:29:18 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

T i m wrote

Years ago I had to spend quite a bit of cash to get a telephone
answering machine that both recorded the date and time stamp on each
incoming message and displayed the number of new messages in a simple
display (rather than expecting you to count the flashes etc). Wouldn't
*everyone* consider those things to be basic requirements, even at the
beginning?

Probably, and that's what you get with all smartphones.

Quite.

Cheers, T i m