[GreenKeys] [Bulk] Re: Telephoto machines?

[Chris Elmquist]

On Sunday (06/28/2015 at 06:26PM -0500), Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> 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.

Was it electrostatic paper (and process) then or what made the paper
special and generated the smoke?

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Chris Elmquist NØJCF