peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (05/09/91)
What I don't understand about all these cheap FAXes is why nobody has put a $5 serial port in one and sold it as a combination FAX/MODEM/SCANNER/ PRINTER? It's got all the parts, and the software on the computer side couldn't be that big a deal. It'd be a killer product: you could sell it for well under $1000 and make a bundle. I could see Brother or one of those companies that sells weird almost-computers doing this. have they just never thought of it? -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
roger@wet.UUCP (Roger Niclas) (05/13/91)
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > What I don't understand about all these cheap FAXes is why nobody has put > a $5 serial port in one and sold it as a combination FAX/MODEM/SCANNER/ > PRINTER? It's got all the parts, and the software on the computer side > couldn't be that big a deal. It'd be a killer product: you could sell it Maybe because it'd be a third-rate printer, a crummy scanner, and an incompatible modem? It would, however, be a good fax, maybe even a fair telephone. And it wouldn't even require the use of a precious serial port on the computer side -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Email: roger@wet.UUCP | * * alt: rogerd@well | witty remark designed to exhibit intellect goes * * CompuServe: 72730,1010 | here *