fax machine

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The result is chaos, and a few too many jokes about young people not knowing how to work a fax machine or manage paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The packs include paper forms and a fax machine – a contingency in case their digital ordering system becomes unavailable.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024

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

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