Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!perl From: perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Fax Modem Software Message-ID: <1990Nov29.035814.18551@PacBell.COM> Date: 29 Nov 90 03:58:14 GMT References: <1990Nov21.215818.3574@PacBell.COM> Sender: news@PacBell.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Pacific Bell - Financial Management Lines: 26 In article <1990Nov21.215818.3574@PacBell.COM> perl@PacBell.COM I wrote: > >I think there is also another company in Oregon that has a >network fax product in the $1000 range. Computer Friends (503) 626-2291 Their LightFax 9624 ifax modem is $399, network software is $200. According to Calvin Smith of "Friends" the network software requires an AppleShare (CAP will do) or TOPS server for spooling. However, the fax modem does not (or cannot, I'm not sure which) need to be attached to the File server. It can be attached to any Mac on the net -- presumably the fastest one. Work is spooled to the file server, the fax server watches the file server for work (in the background). Incomming faxes are either kept on the fax server or spooled to the file server - you choose. I have ordered one -- I'll post impressions after we've played with it a while. -- "The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but it is queerer than we can imagine." J.B.S. Haldane -- Richard Perlman |*| perl@pbseps.pacbell.com |*| (415) 545-0233