fax machine

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He only had a fax machine at the time, and out of the blue I got this fax from him: “Weezer, give me a call — we need to talk.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

People would come in not only to buy milk and pick up the mail, Miller recalls, but to use the fax machine, find a plumber or just to swap gossip.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

It is almost 40 years old, designed with the Cold War in mind, "when the fax machine was the new thing", he said.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

In 1979, he started a document courier service that expanded faster than sales, lost the faith of investors and went bankrupt following the advent of the fax machine and the 1987 market crash.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell