Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aha! Same name different technology to the one I came across later. I must say being able to transmit sketches and drawing update suggestions was a huge step forward in our business. >________________________________ > From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 16:41 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Flip Shulke > > >I knew it was a fax...? Unifax.? > >http://www.downhold.org/lowry/unifax-1955.jpg > >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >________________________________ >>> > From: George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> >>> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> >Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 18:39 >>> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Flip Shulke >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >On Oct 14, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Sonny Carter wrote: >>> > >>> >> Fax? >>> > >>> >The wire services in the sixties used a different technology than the >>> >fax technoloby >>> >(I believe) >>> > >>> >Regards, >>> >George Lottermoser >>> > >>> >http://www.imagist.com >>> >http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> >http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >>> > >>> > >>> >_______________________________________________ >>> >Leica Users Group. >>> >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana? >> 1714 >> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase >> >> USA > > > >-- >Regards, > >Sonny >http://sonc.com/look/ >Natchitoches, Louisiana? >1714 >Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > >USA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >