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Re: Western Union Desk-Fax -- Discontinued?

Bret Ludwig (bretldwig@yahoo.com)
4 Feb 2007 20:53:21 -0800

On Feb 4, 3:08 pm, hay...@alumni.uark.edu (Jim Haynes) wrote:

> In article <telecom26.3...@telecom-digest.org>,

> <hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:

>> Jim Haynes wrote:
>>> I don't know the termination date, but I know that in 1959 there was
>>> some central office desk fax equipment for sale in Chicago surplus
>>> stores. Perhaps it had been replaced by equipment of more modern
>>> design, or perhaps Desk Fax was being phased out in that area at that
>>> time.

>> 1959? Could you mean 1969?

Hams were converting all tube WU fax gear for ham use (usually crudely
as they always do) as late as the early computer era, maybe '77 or
so. See the ARRL Manuals.

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