That's because dedicated fax machines mostly died out in the late 90s when multi-function machines and software modems arrived. I was working at Office Max at

That's because dedicated fax machines mostly died out in the late 90s when multi-function machines and software modems arrived. I was working at Office Max at the time and the transition happened fast. We went from having more than eight dedicated fax machine models down to one or two. The first multi-function machines looked like fax machines and could function without a PC but we're so much better when connected to a PC. Cheap software modems allowed people to send and receive faxes without owning a dedicated machine. I remember eMachines bundled software with their PCs to make them effectively behave like a fax machine. Later they pushed the eFax internet based fax software. It's crazy that many business transactions still require Fax but the machines don't really exist. We needed to send/receive faxes to purchase a home last year as PDF/email was unacceptable. I was able to create a virtual Fax Server using Twilio in a couple hours and deal with these silly requirements. Sadly Twilio is shutting down their Fax service later this year and the suggested alternative is vastly more expensive.