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From: neil@mitsumi.UUCP (Neil Katin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can an Amiga emulate a Fax machine?
Message-ID: <1659@mitsumi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 87 00:48:08 GMT
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In article <4276@garfield.UUCP> john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) writes:
>If so, does software for the purpose exist or would it have to be written
>specially? How about documentation on the Fax format?
>
>This question comes from a guy in our user's group, this was an area he
>mentioned from his work where a PC might be able to do the job just as
>well.
>
>John


Hmmm, how to answer this.  The amiga CAN emulate a fax machine.
I know, because I did some hardware and software to make it happen.
What you need is a CCITT V29/V27 ter/V21 modem chip (such as the
Rockwell R96FAX, or ones from Emulex), or a comercial V29 modem.

Then you need code to handle the fax transmission and encoding.

I did a GIII fax for the Amiga using the Rockwell chip.  It was
about 20 chips and 4000 lines of code.  However, it never made
it to a product (instead, we retargeted it to an IBM/PC).

I don't know of anyone who will sell you one for the Amiga.
Apple has anounced one for the Mac, and there are about
15 companies that have a fax system for IBM/PC's

(That seems to be the normal ratio -- Amiga:Mac:IBM/PC is 0:1:15)

	Neil Katin