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...part paper copier and part telephone. On one end, a document is fed into the machine. The operator then uses the built-in telephone to dial the phone number of the receiving fax. When contact is made, an electronic scanner is activated. As it moves across the page, it converts the text, charts and pictures into electrical pulses that are carried over the telephone line. On the receiving end, the process is reversed. The machines can transmit everything from design plans to a picture of the Mona Lisa, in black-and-white at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just The Fax, Ma'am | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Mount Holyoke senior Michele Mitchell said a University of Massachusetts student hurled a racial insult at her and shoved her away from a copier at a university library the week after the ball game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...copy card system--in which people insert a card with photocopy credit on it into the copier in place of coins--is clearly warranted, especially in light of the price hike. In exchange for the 100 percent increase in cost, users deserve something in return. Why not eliminate the need to drop a dime into the machine before making each copy...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

...here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store for a fuse or anything. Nine times out often you have to send away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Where the Chili Is Chilly | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

University Hall officials have permitted the group to use its copier for the last two years. Other student organizations do not have that same privilege, Gefter said...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Council May Continue Dispute Over University Copier Bill | 2/8/1984 | See Source »

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