I'm just curious if anyone actually has "answering machines" anymore - the old-fashioned kind with those mini tapes? Way back when I had one of those - in the dark ages before voicemail, I would call and talk to my cat as I knew my voice would come through the speaker on the answering machine. However, now that we're in the digital age and everyone's gone to voicemail systems, well, there's just no sense in calling to leave a message for my pets because they won't hear it anyway - everything just goes directly into the phone company's voicemail server, to be stored until I retrieve the message.

Just curious - do they even make "answering machines" anymore?