[Leica] Flip Shulke

[FRANK DERNIE]

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
>
>
>