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...Dylan tune, Ballad of Hollis Brown. But the rock group needed the sheet music for the song, and the most accessible copies were at the Secaucus, N.J., offices of Warner Bros. Publications. The group telephoned Warner Vice President Sy Feldman, who asked if the performers had access to a fax machine. Luckily, one of those electronic wonders was available at their hotel. In the time that it takes to sing the ballad, the band had copies of it in their hands. They performed the song in both shows that night...

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

From office workers to rock stars, more and more people are answering yes to the question, Do you have a fax? A fax, short for facsimile machine, sends electronic copies of documents over ordinary telephone lines to a fax on the opposite end. Once considered too bulky and costly to be practical, fax machines have shrunk to half the size of personal computers and dropped sharply in price, to less than $1,000 for one model. As a result, fax sales in the U.S. are expected to rise from 250,000 machines this year to 400,000 by 1990, pushing...

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

...fax is 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 »

Originally run out of a post office box and an answering service, JCA now has a good-sized office replete with a FAX number and a Telex machine. Chung says he doesn't have to meet his clients in the airport hotel anymore...

Author: By Eric Berman, | Title: On the Make With Ski Trips, Watches and Elvis | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson did print a story on Monday, April 22 about the education conference. However, after-the-fax coverage from second-hand-sources is no my idea of a responsible campus newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing The Point | 5/8/1985 | See Source »

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