Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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