Yeah, my fax has broken. I’m broken.
Fax is vintage tech since at least a decade, but it was useful.
My first contact with them was not on a fax machine, but using a Sportster Winmodem/fax. Faxing was possible using a Windows 3.1 computer, with software of course.
Later on, I got this “marvelous” fax machine, a Panasonic KX-FT38, with its markings in Spanish of course. A noble 300dpi machine, with 20min digital answering machine, and delayed thermal printing, auto cutting blade. 14.4 kilobauds of pure faxing power.
It was so nice I even didn’t care to remove its tacky stickers.
I used it daily. Somewhat people REPLIED to fax, it served to speed response time on bureaucratic nonsense. Secretaries did their thing when they got a fax with their names handwritten on them. IDKW but it worked.
You would like Japan. Fax just refuses to die. There’s the cultural notion that an email isn’t legal, but a fax is ;)
That used to be true in my country too. For some bureaucratic issues, fax was legal-abiding. For example, for health & social pharmaceutical deliveries, it acted as a valid official receipt. It improved delivery times and reduced errors. On the National Health&Edu sector, most of the secretaries were young girls and they loved to be written something after the official receipt was delivered by the fax (the first page in the call). I would write them something as a personal sidenote, and they will do the office work like a charm. Low-rank bureaucrats love to be addressed. These “Social skills” were not used on the official first page of course, but it worked! It saved me lots of headache and phone-drama.
I had an identical one as a kid. Well, my dad had, we weren’t allowed to touch it.
Ps: Um colega BR no lemmy?
AR.
These fax machines were commonly sold on BR?
