Word: faxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political revolution has discovered the fax revolution. Overseas sympathizers of China's student movement last spring quickly learned that the official news blackout could be effectively penetrated through the use of facsimile machines. They used faxes to get foreign press reports into China...
With a little help from Western publications, exiled dissidents are again employing fax technology to send their pro-democracy views into China. But last week authorities got the message and ordered all work units equipped with the machines to intercept the transmission of objectionable material...
...these breakthrough products look hopelessly oversize. Last month Compaq unveiled a 2.2-kg (6-lb.) full-powered portable computer that fits in a briefcase. Sharp and Poqet make even smaller models that slip into a suit pocket. Today there are fax machines, radar detectors, electronic dictionaries, cellular telephones, color televisions, even videotape recorders that fit comfortably in the palm of a hand...
Editor's Note: We just received this urgent fax late last night from Naples Pizza Parlor and Copy Center in New Haven...
...view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have a cellular phone brought to the table to cancel some airline reservations or fax the menu (of course there is fax) to his worst enemy...