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Article: After Years of Steady Growth Use of Facsimile Explodes.
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- January 1, 1984
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According to Webster, the word facsimile means the transmission and reproduction of graphic matter, an exact copy, by wire or radio. While the description is accurate, it falls far short of describing some of the percentions that exists about the word "facsimile." For those far removed, the word conjures up a picture of a machine taht goes clunk! clunk!, located in a police station surrounded by several people, all waiting for the reception of a photograph or fingerprints to be completed. Still there are other groups that use or have used early facsimile equipment and continue to perceive the process as slow, smelly and cumbersome. The fact is, in today's marketplace, ...