Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> that the Fax machine was the greatest invention of
> the past Century or two.

You have to remember *when* it was invented. You can say only so much on
the phone. A very rough hand-drawn sketch can be worth a million words.
I only used fax after I already had email, but it was invented and
available long before. Proof reading drafts and looking at typographic
layout can be very valuable too. My first scanner was a modified
flat-bed scanner. I now consider fax to be totally obsolete (except for
small children) but that was not the case when it was first invented.

I read somewhere that fax machines are (were?) very popular in Japan.
Chinese writing does not lend itself to a keyboard, hand writing is much
quicker and easier for most.

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