early fax / Re: Exxon Qyx Typewriter thingy

[Brent Hilpert]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 
> On 26 Feb 2010 at 11:43, Brian McElroy wrote:
> 
> > My Dad worked on these (mechanical designer designing jigs and
> > fixtures for assembly) at QYX in Lionville, PA  in the late 70's
> >
> > There claim to fame was that you could type a letter and then have
> > another one type the same thing over the phone lines as an original
> > document....all pre facsimile machine.
> >
> > It is said that the technology was stolen to help create the fax
> > machine.
> 
> I thought it was the Exxon Qwip that was the prototype for the modern
> FAX machine.  I can remember the spinning-drum types from much
> earlier.

Reffing my own pages but here's a little about one version of those drum
machines and service (no claim to the earliest, as per other messages):
  http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/index.html