[Leica] Flip Shulke

[Sonny Carter]

I knew it was a fax...  Unifax.

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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
>> >
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>
> Sonny
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Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
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