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Fax death is exaggerated

[Engst, Adam]Adam Engst - 04:48pm May 16, 2007 PST

An interesting perspective....

cheers... -Adam


--- begin forwarded text

From: Terence Conklin
Subject: Fax death is sort of exaggerated

A friend forwarded your recent column covering fax's death. As a
supplemental to that, we're supporting fax users all over the world
and interestingly fax is only dying in the U.S. The rest of the world
never quit faxing, and we have more customers outside the US than in
(with a currently English-only product.) It's old, yes, but it's easy
to understand and "just works," which is more than can be said for a
lot of things.

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Terence Conklin Conklin Systems is a consulting developer,
Conklin Systems with a specialty in developing new technologies,
(517) 663-6418 advanced R&D, and challenging technical problems.
http://www.conklinsystems.com
Makers of: CS Fax - Mobile Fax technology and
                         CS Online - Emulation, Telnet & Adv. Data Logging

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Jeff Porten (apparently) - May 18, 2007 6:31 am (#1 Total: 1)  

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Re: Fax death is exaggerated

On May 16, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Adam C. Engst wrote:

> It's old, yes, but it's easy
> to understand and "just works," which is more than can be said for a
> lot of things.

When I was a student at the Annenberg School for Communication at
UPenn in the early 90s, we still had a telex machine set up in the
office, with the address on all business cards. <http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Telex> At 50 baud, even the slowest
Internet uplinks were much faster (even FidoNet was usually a better
way to reach people), but apparently there was still a regular need
for people getting in touch with the department to use it.

Best,
Jeff



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