Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!aurora!ames!oliveb!amiga!mitsumi!neil 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 References: <4276@garfield.UUCP> Reply-To: neil@mitsumi.UUCP (Neil Katin) Distribution: na Organization: Mitsumi Technology Inc Lines: 29 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