26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
2:08 p.m.
On 26 Feb 2010 at 13:30, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Reffing my own pages but here's a little about one
version of those
drum machines and service (no claim to the earliest, as per other
messages):
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/index.html
Airports always had one or more of these spinning-drum fax machines
for receiving weather maps. I don't know when it started, but it
must have been very shortly after WWII.
I haven't listened to the commercial SW bands much lately, but over-
the-air fax transmissions (weather maps?) used to be quite common.
--Chuck