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From: len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst products of 88
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Date: 27 Dec 88 17:15:39 GMT
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From article <210@imspw6.UUCP>, by bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch):
> From Ted Holden, HTE:
> [...]  
> The losers category:
>         The proliferation of cheap FAX machines, X percent of which attach
>         to computers.  Not that there arent legitimate uses for a FAX
>         machine here and there, but sometimes I think American businessmen
>         must all take stupid pills;  most if not all of the uses I actually
>         see FAX machines being put to could be far more effectively and
>         inexpensively handled by cheap modems sending WordPerfect formatted
>         files over the phone lines using Procomm.  Media hype wins again...
>  
>  

I think you miss the point on fax.  Many users do not keyboard well or at
all.  Many jobs are on preprinted forms (orders, drawings, etc.) Fax is
just right for this.  Fax on PC however, has other utility, such as remote 
printing directly from a mainframe, and such.
 
 We should not ignore the process, just because it takes 1000 times the band-
 width of the modem equivalent of the text.  The overall picture is
 more important than that.

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