Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your description of the machine is spot on and if you'll give me a few more days I can probably remember what we called it. I do think the credit line included "AP Wirephoto" or something similar. --Bob ===On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > Frank, I think we called it fax, though, as in wire facsimile. We had that > machine in our newsroom in 1966, and I have a couple prints from it still. > > The sending unit was a drum, and you loaded the print on that and it > rotated while a light scanned the image. > > The receive unit was very thin paper pretty much like print out paper. > Ours was from UPI, and I was a stringer for the service, and they paid me > 7 bucks a shot. AP paid $5. > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM, FRANK DERNIE < > frank.dernie at btinternet.com> > wrote: > > > The first FAX machine I saw was specially imported into the UK by my > > Japanese Honda colleagues to send sketches and Katakana documents between > > the UK and Japan. It was around 1983. It was pretty new technology then. > > In the 60s FAX wasn't even a dream! > > Frank D. > > >