Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
John F. Eldredge
> Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <3md8g552snt0g34bv...@4ax.com>, Don Aitken
>> <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:13:33 -0800 (PST), Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc
>>> talk-o...@moderators.isc.org <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 18, 1:29 am, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>>>>> Dorothy J Heydt <djhe...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Back in the 1960s ...
>>>>>> (This was before faxes. Long before.)
>>>>> Sorry, but the fax machine was invented in the '40s. The *1840s*.
>>>>> Faxing was demonstrated at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.
>>>> "Not Invented Here". However, I think one shows up in a Charlie Chan
>>>> movie or something, as modern-day crime-fighting technology -
>>>> explained in detail - sending a villain's photograph from one side of
>>>> the country to the other. Transmitter and receiver look like Edison
>>>> audio cylinder equipment. You wrap the photo print around the
>>>> transmitter cylinder and set it spinning...
>>> Yup. Newspaper photographs, and before that line drawings, were
>>> transmitted to remote printing plants using that method.
>>
>> Put it this way. Irrespective of when it was invented, I never saw a
>> fax machine in an office till about 1990.
>>
> Must be highly regional.
> By 1990, I don't recall seeing an office without a fax machine.
>
> Not long after newspapers began using them, the weather bureau used them
> for sending maps out. Big slow things with rotating bands.
The first fax machine I ever saw in an office was in the late 1970's. I
had heard of them prior to that, but hadn't directly encountered one.
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Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)
wrote:
> The first fax machine I ever saw in an office was in the late 1970's. I
> had heard of them prior to that, but hadn't directly encountered one.
In 1966 NASA Dryden had one fax machine. It was in the telephone
operator's room and there was a form to fill out to get something
sent. As I remember it, into the early to mid '70s it wasn't uncommon
for faxing something to be a big deal. Even the big aerospace
companies only had a few fax machines per site and there was a lot of
operator input required.
Mary "By when I retired, we faxed stuff from building to building."
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