• johnjamesautobahn
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    Mechanically encoded to paper tape, then electronically transmitted via undersea cable, then reversed on the other end for printing. Complex!

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    Fax, predating the telephone by about 7 years.

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      Thanks, I was wondering about the resolution. Better than I expected, those dots are quite tiny!