IBM ScanMaster

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu Apr 5 08:26:10 2001

John Allain skrev:

>> I'd be interested in seeing the article. I've repaired many fax
>> machines and was unaware that they have been around for this long!

>OK, this one's a 1907 prototype But! it's for continuous tone images.
>The process is called "Belin Telephotography" and it resembles the
>machine in "Bullitt" mentioned earlier, but as a proto.

But that's telephoto, not telefacsimile. I don't know what separates the
technologies, but telephoto was/is mainly a newspaper and news bureau
application. As for when the fax was first introduced, any takers?

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