Phone/Modem Software

[tal ormanda]

I want to be able to plug my landline telephone cable into my Laptop and answer calls/make calls on the computer using the landline phone. Is there any software that will do this?

[ricktendo]

You are not the only one

[jaclaz]

Something like this? :

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Telephony-SMS-GSM/Easy-SpeakerPhone.shtml

Or this (seemingly "out of production"/dead site):

WillowPhone

Here:

http://trace.wisc.edu/computer/win95/win95sha.html

(rigorously UNTESTED by me)

jaclaz