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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: RE: Re: Apple II Fax
Message-ID: <8903111546.aa23602@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Mar 89 20:34:06 GMT
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>Rotten Apple
>
>   Dug up Feb 89 copy of Computer Shopper (actually wasnt buried TOO deep
>   yet). Has several articles on PC Fax, including two on the Apple one
>   for the MAC. Mentions the bug you recounted and the recent fix.
>
>   Very disappointed no IIGS support, though I would imagine it's a
>   software issue (and marketing, of course - that's what happens when
>   you let soft-drink peddlers into computers - short circuits). I would
>   think the hardware can be interfaced, at least through an adaptor at
>   worst, but without s/w to convert document and picture files to the
>   FAX format, it's useless. Any rumors, vapor or otherwise?

I haven't heard any hints of an adaptation of the Apple FAX (or any other)
for the IIgs.  I suppose that a IIgs connected to an AppleTalk net could
use an Apple FAX on that net(?).  I don't know of a flatbed scanner for
the IIgs either.  Apple doesn't view the IIgs as a business machine (in
fact, I think the very idea horrifies them :-), hence why would anyone with
an Apple 2 have a FAX (narrow vision :-(?

An aside: Did you see 20/20 last night?  Lynn Shearer was interviewing a big
time New York lawyer in his office, and what did he have sitting behind him???
A IIgs!! (I guess even big time New York lawyers can't always afford -- or
justify the added expense of? -- Macs!).

>   I know that Quadram has an external version of their JT Fax, Any info
>   on it re Apple suitability ?

I believe there IS Macintosh software available for FAX's other than Apple's,
but I don't know of any for the Apple IIgs (surprising perhaps in light of
recent news that the IIgs is selling at roughly the same rate <in units> as
the Compaq 386).

>   Thanks again,
>
>   jeff Sicherman   (JAJZ801@CALSTATE.BITNET)

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