[Qcwa] About the History of Facsimile

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> Thank you, Frank for a fascinating bit of communications history!!
> 73, Allan, W1AEL.

Thanks, Allan!  

An interesting tidbit:  A year or two before I got to Xerox in 1965, some guy 
had written to a high officer in the Company and made the bare suggestion 
that Xerox could take one of those new fangled copiers Xerox had just come 
out with (in the early 1960s) and use them to scan a document like it was 
going to make copies normally, but send the info to a similar copier on the 
same floor, different floor, or even in a different city and reproduce the 
document there.  Just the bare idea as I stated it.  No circuit, no 
transmission technique, not even how the copier at that time would convert 
the light information into electrical signals.  Some other patent attorney 
had sent him the typical thanks but no thanks letter.  But a short time after 
I got there, he actually sued Xerox for stealing his (very bare) idea.  After 
I sent his brother-in-law attorney (no kidding) one of the 1836 or so (I 
don't remember now) telegraphic facsimile patents (1836!!!), we never heard 
from the guy again.

Regards,

Frank  K6FCW




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