Post 2718409 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
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 (DIR) Post #2713751 by codesections@fosstodon.org
       2019-01-06T20:49:32Z
       
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       Something I've always wondered about: why/how were fax machines possible so much earlier than scanners?I would have (naively) thought that, if you can make a digital representation of a document, transmit that representation through a phone line, and then print that representation back to paper, than you would necessarily be able to take a digital representation and save it to a hard disk.  Why did that take years more to happen?(My guesses are disk space or display tech, but really curious)
       
 (DIR) Post #2713770 by Canageek@cybre.space
       2019-01-06T21:14:03Z
       
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       @codesections I thought it was an analog form being sent over the phone line at first?
       
 (DIR) Post #2714212 by scott@vis.social
       2019-01-06T20:53:11Z
       
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       @codesections my understanding of fax is that the first fax machines were actually analog. They transmitted a signal that represented the scanned brightness, but they weren't truly digital until later.
       
 (DIR) Post #2718409 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
       2019-01-06T23:43:54Z
       
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       @Canageek you beat me to it! @codesections