Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!atc From: atc@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax Subject: Re: FAX/MODEM... Its here! Message-ID: <1991May18.145714.3727@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 18 May 91 02:57:14 GMT References: <2451@wet.UUCP> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 23 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > 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? > I just noticed an add in the English Computer Shopper Mag selling just such a device, Think it was made by Amstrad but I could be wrong. If anyone wants details I can get them. -- Andrew Chambers Computer Services University of Waikato New Zealand ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ