[GreenKeys] [Bulk] Re: Telephoto machines?

Jeffrey D Angus jdangus at att.net
Sun Jun 28 19:26:57 EDT 2015


On 6/28/2015 5:46 PM, Richard Dillman wrote:
> Probably one of the few electronic devices in which smoke is good.
As was the Western Union DeskFax machines that hit the surplus
market in the early '70s.
<http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/viewL.jpg>
A friend of mine dragged me down to JJ Glass in downtown LA and we
both bought 4 of them at $5 each.
After we got everything working, we'd camp out on 2 meter AM and
send Don Martin cartoons back and forth.
Great fun, until we ran out of the special paper required.
Admittedly, it took almost a year to do that.

Jeff

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