Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.fax:308 comp.dcom.modems:9767 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!wet!roger From: roger@wet.UUCP (Roger Niclas) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: FAX/MODEM... why not? Message-ID: <2451@wet.UUCP> Date: 13 May 91 08:52:34 GMT References: Followup-To: comp.dcom.fax Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 19 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > What I don't understand about all these cheap FAXes is why nobody has put > a $5 serial port in one and sold it as a combination FAX/MODEM/SCANNER/ > PRINTER? It's got all the parts, and the software on the computer side > couldn't be that big a deal. It'd be a killer product: you could sell it Maybe because it'd be a third-rate printer, a crummy scanner, and an incompatible modem? It would, however, be a good fax, maybe even a fair telephone. And it wouldn't even require the use of a precious serial port on the computer side -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Email: roger@wet.UUCP | * * alt: rogerd@well | witty remark designed to exhibit intellect goes * * CompuServe: 72730,1010 | here *