History of FAX, totally OT

[jdow]

Um, for what it is worth the newspaper industry was one of the
major pushes for the development of facsimile, particularly the
modern group 3 "digital" facsimile. They had pictures they wanted
to print and money to burn doing so. Sylvania and then Magnavox
were big names in the actual development work.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "fredex" <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

FAX used to be used in the newspaper industry. I don't know how old
the technology is, but it's fairly old. When I was a kid (quite some
time ago, now, given how time is racing by) you'd see a black and
white photo in the newspaper of something that happened thousands of
miles away, with a caption "AP Wire Photo". That my friends, was a
facsimile transmission.