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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 08:54:22 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > I don't recollect anyone lamenting that their modem was in the junk   
   > room now :-)   
      
   Faxing via modem was fun. This was because standalone fax machines had   
   bloody awful scanners that pushed the contrast to maximum on   
   everything which, while fine for regular text, turned photographic   
   imagery into a murky, blobby mess.   
      
   Whereas if the fax data was generated on a computer, you had access to   
   nice dithering algorithms that did a creditable job of reproducing   
   gradations of tone (at least in greyscale). And this still looked   
   pretty good on the receiving fax machine.   
      
   I loved the oohs and ahs and “How did you do that?” responses. ;)   
      
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