fax machine

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People would come in not only to buy milk and pick up the mail, Miller recalls, but to use the fax machine, find a plumber or just to swap gossip.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2024

And there were other things he could not recall — what a fax machine is called, the name of a former cabinet colleague, the agency that preserves official papers.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2024

It is almost 40 years old, designed with the Cold War in mind, "when the fax machine was the new thing", he said.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2024

“Three or four times a day I would sit by my fax machine and watch the piece of paper slowly revealing her next missive,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2023

Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell