Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: FAX/MODEM... why not? Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <2451@wet.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17 May 91 17:10:52 GMT In article <2451@wet.UUCP> roger@wet.UUCP (Roger Niclas) writes: > 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 wouldn't be compatible with Hayes or Telebit high speed modems, but doesn't Group 3 FAX use regular 2400 baud protocols? And it'd be as good a printer as any of the standard dot-matrix ones out there. And as good a scanner as any other monochrome one. > And it wouldn't even require the use of a precious serial port on the > computer side On the contrary, it'd save one. Or you could put an even cheaper parallel port and give me a use for the stupid parallel port on my computer. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"