Rioch as a Fax Modem?

[davel]

Re: Rioch as a Fax Modem?

Fax is old tech, almost as old as this dead thread.

[KenB]

Re: Rioch as a Fax Modem?

Fax is old tech, almost as old as this dead thread.

Unfortunately (or, fortunately, depending on your point of view), Fax is still used heavily in medical, legal, and educational areas.

Admittedly, that is on the decline, but there is still a need for it.

[slimslob]

Re: Rioch as a Fax Modem?

Fax is old tech, almost as old as this dead thread.

But still the fastest and most secure to get copies of paper documents from one place to another.

[KenB]

Re: Rioch as a Fax Modem?

But still the fastest and most secure to get copies of paper documents from one place to another.

My doctor works for a large, very modern hospital system.

Periodically, I need to send him some glucose monitoring reports.

Even though there is a site I go to for my appointments, lab work, etc..., I still need to either fax or (gulp!) snail-mail the report.

I found numerous fax-for-free solutions on the web; they only charge you if you want an inbound number, or need to send more than a (very low) number of pages.

Great for personal use (as it was designed) but totally impractical for a business of any sort.

[slimslob]

Re: Rioch as a Fax Modem?

My doctor works for a large, very modern hospital system.

Periodically, I need to send him some glucose monitoring reports.

Even though there is a site I go to for my appointments, lab work, etc..., I still need to either fax or (gulp!) snail-mail the report.

I found numerous fax-for-free solutions on the web; they only charge you if you want an inbound number, or need to send more than a (very low) number of pages.

Great for personal use (as it was designed) but totally impractical for a business of any sort.

In 2005 when I was a deployed as a reservist to Iraq at least 3 NCOs including myself had accounts with eFax.com. Came in very handy when we had soldiers putting promotion packets and needed paperwork from their home units, we had reservist from multiple other transportation units. We would give the soldier one of the numbers, they would call their unit, next day we would have the paperwork. Much better than waiting 10 days for snail-mail to get there. Faxes were received as email attachments. Came in handy when I got back and needed to teat a fax unit I was working on.