Ancient faxing (was Re: Archival storage)

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Brent Hilpert wrote:

> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >
> > When you figure it out, let me know and we can send old school faxes to
> > each other ;)
>
> That would be fun, but the above makes connecting them over a distance
> today awkward. If you actually have *two* of these units (WU Desk Fax /
> Telefax 6500 / chassis 6499-A, footprint about one square foot, curved
> sheet-metal cover in hammertone green, red white & green pushbuttons on left,
> lamp and 4th pushbutton on right) I'll let you know what's needed to
> interconnect them if I ever figure something out.

Sounds exactly like what I have, but I only have one :(

Found some nice pictures of ancient fax machines:

http://www.hffax.de/html/hauptteil_faxhistory.htm

(Beware: that page was doing weird stuff with my desktop)

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