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From: afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Telephone image-transmitting system
Summary: Info wanted on this device
Message-ID: <14254@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 91 06:43:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: ur-cc.14254
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
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About a year ago I read in some gadget magazine (DAK's Sharper Crutchfield
Image or something) about a send/receive image system that worked over the
telephone lines.  The idea was that with a couple of these things set up you
could send and receive digital pictures (taken by a built in digital camera)
through the phone lines to the other person's little b&w monitor *while you
were still talking*.  Unfortunately the only things I can remember about
this device was that it worked in the background, it had a pretty good
image send rate (one every two minutes or something), and that it was
actually not super expensive.

Does anyone have *any* information about these things?  I don't remember
just where I read about it, who makes it, or much of anything else, but I am
suddenly quite interested in finding out more to help ease some of the pain
of a long-distance relationship.

Please e-mail any information you might have.

Thanks,

Alan


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  Alan R Fry                     |    You know what I hate?    
  afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu    |    Rhetorical questions     
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