Replies to post #164079 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[OMOLIVES]

Ha!....I always hated the feel of the paper or poor delivery(not readable)....and on a cheaper machine....unrolling the damn thing and keeping it flat. Be it...all of the above.

[dukeb]

I once had a bank fax me someone's loan application which included personal tax returns. Funny thing was the applicant lived 60 miles away and was one of my high school teachers.

We used to get rare wrong number faxes. The most annoying was well over 100 pages long

[N4longterm]

When we bought our first fax machine years ago, a steel distributor that specialized in second & third rate product would send us a daily 5 page listing. We would call and tell them to stop, as our customers required prime grade steel, and of course they never stopped. So we decided to send them our ~300 page catalog via fax after hours.

Haven't heard from them since....

[Zorax]

Must of been years ago. Over ten years ago the office fax was always set on 'print to file'. Just pulled up whats needed for years.

[shajandr]

There were still firms that had Telex into the 21st century. Mostly firms that had binniss in obscure countries that still relied on telex.

It seems that's all gone now, butt I know that some firms kept their telex and telex address into the 2000s.

Even in the late '90s, sometimes the best way to ensure a communication to/from a place like Benin was to use Telex. You knew it was received. More reliable than mail, fax, phone, or messenger (physical messenger - not text message - like FedEx or DHL) in some areas of the world.