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In 1966? HN's guidelines say that one shouldn't ask if one has read the posted link, but I'm tempted to all the time.
by ktta 9y ago
In 1966?
HN's guidelines say that one shouldn't ask if one has read the posted link, but I'm tempted to all the time.
- vidarh 9y agoIt would seem to be a joke. But even so, while 1966 was indeed early for "regular" use of fax - the first "user friendly" Xerox fax machines hit the market around then -, the first transmission of facsimiles of images dates to the 1840's, and the first fax that used similar methods to "modern" fax machines of scanning line by line (the "scanning phototelegraph") dates to 1880. Commercial fax machines have been around since around 1900. So it would indeed be possible. One weird and wonderful product of early faxes (fax over radio predates "wired" fax machines): Finch Facsimile's [1] were used to transmit "newspapers" via AM radio in the '30's, that was then printed on thermal paper at the home of the subscriber. From [1]: "Six hours overnight was enough time to print a six page two column news bulletin, delivered in time for breakfast." [1]: http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_air1.htm http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofax/newspaper_of_the_a...