5 Jan
2015
5 Jan
'15
7:02 a.m.
On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Yeah - some of the modems were. IIRC: Sam Leffler
(sam "usual email punctuation" errno.com) did the original FlexFax SW and we had
a couple kicking around. My memory is that the modems that could also support Fax in
those days, sucked at UUCP, so most of us did want to dedicate a phone line to one of
them.
In what sense? Telebit came along early with their UUCP g-protocol spoofing, but that
predated all the Hayes et al FAX support. By the time modems grew (good) FAX support,
UUCP was dying out in favour of PPP over V.xxx 56kb/s. I had banks of Hayes (and other)
V.x modems that handled dialup 38.4 + FAX quite cheerfully. The Telebit UUCP-aware modems
died out quite quickly once V.32 hit the streets.
--lyndon