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

They remembered a warm, gossipy, hard-working, impatient, gregarious, kind woman who told jokes, took her friends to dance shows, knew her own mind and remained loyal — to the end — to the fax machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 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

In 1979, he started a document courier service that expanded faster than sales, lost the faith of investors and went bankrupt following the advent of the fax machine and the 1987 market crash.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 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