Electronic newsboy (Jun, 1970)
Filed under: Communications — @ 12:55 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1970
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Tags: fax
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jun, 1970
Buy on Ebay
Tags: fax
Electronic newsboy
Is this how you’ll get your newspaper In the future? Maybe, says Toshiba, the Japanese electronics firm that developed this facsimile receiver. It prints both sides of a sheet simultaneously, in six minutes. If mass-produced, the device would sell for an estimated $300.
Kindle seems cheap by comparison, considering inflation etc.
Comment by fluffy — December 26, 2007 @ 2:59 am
Wow, at 6 minutes per page the sunday paper would take like 9 hours to print!
Comment by Thundercat — December 26, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
Wasn’t there something in the 1930s that did this?
It was suppossed to be educational.
Comment by jayessell — December 26, 2007 @ 12:57 pm
Jayessel: Yeah there are a bunch of them that I’ve posted, but I’m having a bit of trouble finding them
I need to add better tagging to my posts.
Here is one from 1935:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....the-mails/
But this is by far my favorite one, it’s a color fax machine from 1946 that uses colored pencils!
http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....hine-1946/
The result, on the cover, looks just like an Inkjet print out:
Comment by Charlie — December 26, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
I like this issue’s cover: Picture-next-to-picture. Reminds me of the TAXI episode where Jim Ignatowski buys a wall full of TV and gets hooked on C-Span.
Comment by Stannous — December 26, 2007 @ 4:51 pm