One of the first Sharp fax brochures?

[copyman]

See attached. I came across this in my old files and found it to be really funny. I believe this is for one of the first fax machines made (1972). Not sure if this was the one where a drum rotated and print was burnt onto thermal paper? You could see smoke coming from it. Took around 20 mins for 1 page with 2 paragraphs of text! LOL

The sales letter is signed Phil but don't think it's our friend from this forum

Added this after: Sharp named their early analog copiers "Sharpfax". Even though they had nothing to do with fax technology, except a copy being a "facsimile" of the original placed on glass! No ADF's on early copiers.

[JR2ALTA]

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To this day I am fascinated with how faxing works and marvel at geniuses who materialized the idea. Mind you, I F#&%ing hate fax machines but I marvel nonetheless.

[ZOOTECH]

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See attached. I came across this in my old files and found it to be really funny. I believe this is for one of the first fax machines made (1972). Not sure if this was the one where a drum rotated and print was burnt onto thermal paper? You could see smoke coming from it. Took around 20 mins for 1 page with 2 paragraphs of text! LOL

The sales letter is signed Phil but don't think it's our friend from this forum

Added this after: Sharp named their early analog copiers "Sharpfax". Even though they had nothing to do with fax technology, except a copy being a "facsimile" of the original placed on glass! No ADF's on early copiers.

I believe the chart was to show what a 5% coverage looked like.

[copyman]

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I believe the chart was to show what a 5% coverage looked like.

Good point but sure looks like more than 5% coverage to me?

Come to think of it I may have made a mistake calling it a brochure.

[KenB]

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I believe the chart was to show what a 5% coverage looked like.

Ah, yes...the infamous Slerexe letter. You are correct.

Talk about old memories!

I was really into fax in the late 80s and most of the 90s. That was the era of the fax boom.

That page not only represented 5% fill, but it was the “official” test page for calculating storage capacities and transmission speeds.

I used to carry several copies of it in my tool case to use for testing.

[copyman]

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Was selerex a parts company or am I thinking of sel-drum?

[KenB]

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See attached. I came across this in my old files and found it to be really funny. I believe this is for one of the first fax machines made (1972). Not sure if this was the one where a drum rotated and print was burnt onto thermal paper? You could see smoke coming from it. Took around 20 mins for 1 page with 2 paragraphs of text! LOL

The sales letter is signed Phil but don't think it's our friend from this forum

Added this after: Sharp named their early analog copiers "Sharpfax". Even though they had nothing to do with fax technology, except a copy being a "facsimile" of the original placed on glass! No ADF's on early copiers.

[Lance15]

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We still have ONE account that STILL FAXes service requests!

[copyman]

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Ouch! Showing our age! LOL

[KenB]

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Ouch! Showing our age! LOL

I never did actually see one, but I did learn about it when I went to Canon "fax basic" class back in '88.

I did, however, get to work on 2 or 3 Canon Fax 330s, which were Group 2 , and analog.

[slimslob]

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The company I worked for at one time was a dealer for Exxon Office Equipment. Product line included Quip Facsimile equipment. Early group 1 was 6 minutes a page. Later reduce vertical resolution allowed 4 minutes per page transmission but reduced quality as well.

The next generation was Group 2 with transmission speeds of 3 and 2 minutes per page.

[tsbservice]

Re: One of the first Sharp fax brochures?

See attached. I came across this in my old files and found it to be really funny. I believe this is for one of the first fax machines made (1972). Not sure if this was the one where a drum rotated and print was burnt onto thermal paper? You could see smoke coming from it. Took around 20 mins for 1 page with 2 paragraphs of text! LOL

The sales letter is signed Phil but don't think it's our friend from this forum

Added this after: Sharp named their early analog copiers "Sharpfax". Even though they had nothing to do with fax technology, except a copy being a "facsimile" of the original placed on glass! No ADF's on early copiers.

It looks awesome! Definitely like 5% coverage.

[rspicer]

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I started in the business in the mid 90's, so even though I worked through the change from analog to digital, I missed a lot of the early technologies with fax and copy machines. I love to see movies from the 60's or 70's that have some of that technology on display as the "latest and greatest". One of my favorites is the scene in Bullitt where they are all standing in the police station watching a fax printing out on a Telecopier.