3 Apr
2001
3 Apr
'01
9:47 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, ip500 wrote:
Nah .... Fax machines have been around about forever.
I've got a
Western Union ThermoFax unit from the late 30's / early 40's. As I
recall the Crosley Readeo unit was available in about 1931 and
produced faxed newspapers .. via radio! Somewhat before it's time and
the idea quietly died. First published mention I can find quickly of
facsimile transmission [commercial use .. that is] was in the 1912
edition of Wm. Maver's "American Telegraphy" .. it showed in great
detail the "Denison fac-simile telegraph system" ..odd spelling with
the hyphen but that's how it was cited in the book.
They actually go farther back than that. Facsimile was invented around
the 1830s. I started a thread about this some time back.
The only reference I can find to IBM ScanMaster is the German archive
edition of ComputerWeek:
http://www.computerwoche.de/archiv.cfm?path=http://www.computerwoche.de/arc…
This is a great resource, as they have seemingly made all their old
articles available on the web. My German is just good enough to make out
most of the article, but it's just a cursory overview. I'd like to see
pictures and a better description (preferably in English :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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