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Sending Faxes without a land line in late 2018??.............
tooki:
I think you read into my comment a lot of stuff that wasn’t there...
I LOVE old tech. Technology history is one of my very favorite things. I totally understand why we stop using things. But with so much of it, it makes me sad that I never got to see it in operation.
Halcyon:
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--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 24, 2018, 08:56:05 am ---I actually worked in an area about 8 years ago that still used an electric typewriter to send and receive incoming and outgoing messages from other branches. I kid you not! This was fairly common even well into the 2000's. When I joined that organisation, I questioned my supervisor at the time to try and discover some logic into why we were using a well and truly outdated bit of gear (which kept breaking... I suspect on purpose a lot of the time). I honestly didn't get it because everyone had their own government email address which was good for even protected material as the message never traversed the internet, even between external agencies.
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Eventually the typewriter broke under... ehem... mysterious circumstances and it would be too expensive to repair or replace and that was the end of that.
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You mean like an honest-to-goodness teletypewriter? I’ve only seen them in museums...
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No it was a Canon electronic typewriter with the usual ink and correction ribbons.
We would insert the pre-printed message form into it, type out the message then call the other party, read out the message for their "pad" and the typed copy would remain as the record.
Housedad:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 24, 2018, 11:03:13 pm ---I think you read into my comment a lot of stuff that wasn’t there...
I LOVE old tech. Technology history is one of my very favorite things. I totally understand why we stop using things. But with so much of it, it makes me sad that I never got to see it in operation.
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Nah, I read it right. I have a lousy way of expressing ironic sarcasm, sometimes.
It just made me realize just how long, long ago it was that I used teletypewriters. I am a bit nostalgic about the old stuff. Simpler times.
I loved the Teletype so much that I thought I had gone to heaven when I procured a used DECWriter for my personal use in 1978. (slightly similar machine.) I was able to get a used Calcomp 563 plotter a year later. Even though it is long gone, I still have several rolls of paper for it in my basement. Making the interface circuit and software for 8085 based S100 computer to run it was a major thrill for me back then.
I joke with my kids about my age all the time. I'm old enough to be my kids grandfather.
FedyaTheoderich:
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PTR_1275:
Speaking of old tech, one of the motor companies (that makes small motors) I sold and serviced at my last job still had in the dealer license contract that you needed to have a microfiche for viewing the service manuals. This is despite having a software / pdf library that was updated yearly and was installed on the workshop computer.
They removed microfiche service manuals from their ordering list in about 2005.
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