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From: rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: the 5-in-one magic box
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.194732.16865@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 19:47:32 GMT
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  I have a peripheral that I want to buy, but nobody makes it.
Take a fax machine (not a card). That's function #1. Add the
ability to scan to disk (you already have the scanner) and
you have a scanner. That's function #2. Since it already
can talk on the phone, let it function as an ordinary
modem. Function #3. Since it already can print things, add
an interface to your computer and make it into a printer.
Function #4. Since it already can both scan and print,
redirect the scanner to the printer and you have a
copying machine. That's function #5.
  So - take a fax machine and add a microprocessor, some
RAM, some interfaces and some connectors.
  Why doesn't Sony make this? Would YOU buy it?
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Rolf Wilson   Illinois State Geological Survey   rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu