27 Feb
2010
27 Feb
'10
3:30 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Indeed, they are one of those archaic, but interesting, combinations of old
technology and techniques.
If you haven't done so or looked into it already, it should be possible with
just one unit to interface it to a couple of bits of a port on something
modern, with not much hardware. A little program to process the signal could
permit scanning and/or printing to/from a modern computer. Could be fun, for
example, to see a scan build line-by-line on the screen of your computer as it
is scanned on the clunky Desk-Fax.
I haven't done the above but was instead working on an interface to permit two
units to transfer to each other.
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
I have one of exactly that model! I picked it up on eBay several
years ago, along with some docs, some paper, and a copy of an old ham
radio magazine article about how to use it for HF FAX. It's a neat
device!