At 09:51 AM 8/12/95 -0700, you wrote:
* Finally, I have a "fax modem" on my Macintosh, as many of you do. Guess what? I went and got a real fax machine. Lots of reasons. First, my fax modem had to be installed just right...if inits or preferences got subtly shifted, it stopped working properly. Second, sending things was a bitch. (Had to have the scanner up and working, which was not often, etc.) Third, robustness.
We've got a box sitting next to the laser printer that receives faxes and prints them on real paper, which is more reliable (and quieter and lower-powered) than leaving the computer on, though it does require leaving the printer on. But for outgoing faxes, much of what I send is from the computer anyway, so it's less of a problem (though, without a scanner, I'm more likely to only fax stuff that I generated on the computer than drive to Kinkos...) Perhaps we also need to build PGPfax? #--- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts@ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0664 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 #--- Storyteller makes no choice - soon you will not hear his voice. His job was to shed light, and not to master. RIP, Jerry