[Leica] Flip Shulke

[Robert Baron]

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.
> >
>