What is MacPhone?

This app works with: Basilisk II, Mini vMac

Launched during the first year of the Macintosh’s lifespan, the Intermatrix MacPhone pushed Apple’s new computer into Bizarroland fairly quickly.

The MacPhone worked as a hardware/software combo that included the external telephone-like box you see here, which hung off the side of your Mac, and special software that maintained an ongoing log of outgoing calls and a database of frequently-used telephone numbers.

Plugging into the Mac’s external speaker jack, the MacPhone sent out DTMF signals that could quickly dial anyone using a software address book. Later versions of the software apparently used that same speaker jack to deliver canned messages to callers using synthesized speech. Sounds pleasant.

 - (VintageComputing.com)

Download MacPhone for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac