Exhibit 24(ii)
POWER OF ATTORNEY


	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, officer 
and/or director of ACCESS Corporation, an Ohio Corporation, which is 
about to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, 
DC, under the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as 
amended, a 1998 Annual Report, hereby constitutes Mr. Newton D. Baker, 
his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of 
substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and 
stead, in any and all capacities, to sign such 1998 Annual Report and 
any or all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits 
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact 
and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act 
and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, 
as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, 
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent 
or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by 
virtue hereof.
	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand this 
16 day of July, 1998.
						ROBERT J. KALTHOFF
						_____________________
						Robert J. Kalthoff