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Faxed: A Book Review – Ruminations

In my last post, I talked about the book written by historian and professor Jonathan Coopersmith entitled Faxed – The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. I left off as fax entered the late Eighties and became wildly popular. As Coopersmith recounts, this confounded the experts, who were expecting electronic messaging, videotext or a…

May 6, 2017James RaffertyCommunications Standards, Communications Technologycomputer fax, Coopersmith, fax, Internet fax

Faxed: A Book Review – Part 1

In 1993, I visited the city of San Antonio to participate in a speaking engagement on fax at a conference on electronic commerce. While there, I had dinner with a professor from the University of Texas A & M named Jonathan Coopersmith. We had an engaging conversation about facsimile technology and he told me that…