The type 3 is the fastest and should take about a minute to send or receive a page of text. There are three types of machines, named simply type 1, type 2 and type 3. Is a fax machine instant? Or just fast? The answer has to be the latter, though the speed of data interchange depends very much on the type of machine (or internet-based service, as we’ll discuss in a minute) being used. Fast or Instant? Speed of Data Interchange Square by square, line by line and your whole page is sent – or received – in a matter of minutes. Then, they scan it – they look at each tiny square to see if it’s black or white and then send the collected data to the receiving machine. What these machines do is treat the piece of paper with your data as if it’s covered in a really thick grid. Similarly, fax machines transmit your information using only a pair of signals – black or white. We all know computer data are just sets of only two symbols – one and zero. The first fax, at the time called “chemical telegraph,” was sent in the 1840’s by its inventor – a Scotsman named Alexander Bain (1811 – 1877). Brief History of FaxĬontrary to what you may assume, the fax machine’s first version was invented even before the telephone. So, that being said, let’s see what are its most important features and if it is instant enough to serve us for the decades to come.
This avant-garde veteran is the good old fax machine.Īlthough it may not be the first choice for rapid communication in today’s corporate data exchange, there must be something about it that has made it able to withstand the test of time. That said, one of the pioneers in rapid communication is still in use even today. That’s because people are busier than ever. These days, many people put importance on things that are fast, or even instantaneous.
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