Fax Machine

The fax machine has revolutionized the way we do business, but if you don't have a fax machine at home -- or you share one with too many others at the office -- you might as well be cut off from the simplest and easiest method of getting a document from Point A to Point B.That's why I was intrigued by a couple of new Internet services that offer free telephone numbers that will deliver faxes directly to your regular e-mail account. They're part of a larger movement to centralize all your messaging -- including e-mail, faxes and voice mail -- on the Internet, but unlike some of the schemes, these exist here and now. They can also save you a lot of time, paper and money.

Even at an early age, George A. Dangerfield Jr. had the gift. The wide, easy grin. The firm handshake. Ambition. Drive. A head for numbers that would serve him well as one of the city's largest landlords.He opened his first business when he was 12 years old -- a sweetly smiling kid selling frozen Kool-Aid cups out the back door of his parents' rowhouse on Cliftwood Avenue. In two hot summers, he earned enough to buy a motor scooter."His hero was Evel Knievel, the stuntman," says Elizabeth Dangerfield, allowing a faint laugh at the memory of her youngest son's daredevil exploits.

Besides the telephone, what's the most useful instant communications medium?Right now, I'd vote for the fax machine. If you're involved in any form of business, you probably send and receive faxes every day. Fax machines are cheap, they're easy to use, and almost every office has one. Whether you're sending a fax across town or all the way to China, the only thing you have to know is what phone number to punch in.One of the reasons we can zip faxes around...

The Sun will offer weekly hearing schedules for the 1998 General Assembly session through SunFax. You must have a fax machine to use this service.If your fax machine can answer the phone at any time, you may have schedules delivered automatically from The Sun's free broadcast service. To sign up, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 6105 when the attendant answers. If you signed up last year, you must call this year to reconfirm.You can also retrieve hearing schedules by calling directly from a fax machine.

The Sun will offer weekly hearing schedules for the 1998 General Assembly session through SunFax. You must have a fax machine to use this service.If your fax machine can answer the phone at any time, you may have schedules delivered automatically from The Sun's free broadcast service. To sign up, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 6105 when the attendant answers. If you signed up last year, you must call this year to reconfirm.You can also retrieve hearing schedules by calling directly from a fax machine.

A list of candidates who passed the July administration of the Maryland Bar Exam is now available through SunFax and on SunSpot.To retrieve the list by fax, dial 410-332-6123 and enter code 5600 when the attendant answers. You must have access to a fax machine to use this service.If you live outside the Baltimore area, you must dial in from a fax machine. Within the Baltimore area, you can dial in from any phone and have the list sent to a fax machine at another Baltimore-area number.The Bar Exam list is also available on the World Wide Web by pointing your browser to www.sunspot.

The Sun will offer weekly hearing schedules for the 1998 General Assembly session through SunFax. You must have a fax machine to use this service.If your fax machine can answer the phone at any time, you may have schedules delivered automatically by subscribing to The Sun's free broadcast service. To sign up, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 6105 when the attendant answers. If you subscribed last year, you must call this year to reconfirm.You can also retrieve hearing schedules by calling directly from a fax machine.

If you're setting up an office, you need a fax machine.This advice sounds prehistoric to Web heads and Net nuts. They figure electronic mail is faster, cheaper and more powerful than fax. Even if forced to receive and reply to a fax from some Neanderthal - defined as a person without an e-mail address - they figure they'll stick to the fax-modem in their computer, which can send and receive faxes without ever involving paper.But, in practice, I've rarely found any software more frustrating than fax programs.

The Sun will offer weekly hearing schedules for the 1998 General Assembly session through SunFax. You must have a fax machine to use this service.If your fax machine can answer the phone at any time, you may have schedules delivered automatically by subscribing to The Sun's free broadcast service. To sign up, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 6105 when the attendant answers. If you subscribed last year, you must call this year to reconfirm.You can also retrieve hearing schedules by calling directly from a fax machine.

The Sun will offer weekly hearing schedules for the 1998 General Assembly session through SunFax. You must have a fax machine to use this service.If your fax machine can answer the phone at any time, you may have schedules delivered automatically from The Sun's free broadcast service. To sign up, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 6105 when the attendant answers. If you signed up last year, you must call this year to reconfirm.You can also retrieve hearing schedules by calling directly from a fax machine.

The telephone landed its own gallery show first, way back in 1968. People on one end of the curly-corded land line carried out instructions in art-making issued by folks at the other end. Later - much later - came a retrospective devoted to the graph- ics and snapshots created by the gadget's annoying, chirpy little cousin, the cell phone. Both types of talking machine are still, God help us, very much in use in modern society. But a national traveling show opening this weekend at the Contemporary Museum celebrates another communication device that is on its way out: the fax machine.

The Q: While technology keeps making it easier for people to reach us by phone, more of us would prefer that it didn't. Several questions recently have focused on reducing calls from charities and telemarketers and how the National Do Not Call Registry applies. Reader Chris Thomas of Phoenix, Md., wants to know, "Is there some equivalent for unwanted faxes? We have a fax machine for our home businesses and we get unwanted faxes a lot - especially in the middle of the night or early morning."

So many of today's communication electronic devices are acquiring the ability to connect to the Internet. The telephone does; it's called Voice Over Internet Protocol or VoIP. Several digital camera models can go online. Television devices such as the SlingBox let you see what's being displayed on your TV from anywhere you can get Internet access. So it was inevitable that we'd eventually see a fax machine go online, too. The UX-B800SE BroadbandFax from Sharp Corp. is a normal progression of that technology.

OTTAWA, Canada -- You're not exactly a Luddite, but you're far from being a technophile. You realize high-tech is here to stay, and that you have to adjust. But it doesn't mean you have to accept it. Truth be known, you'd rather stick with early 20th-century technology. All you really want and need are the visible signs of technical literacy - not the actual knowledge. That's why the following products may be just right for you. The PVC. Everyone's expected to have a personal computer today.

The Sun is again offering a free fax broadcast of schedules for Maryland General Assembly committee hearings. To use this service, you must have a fax machine that can answer automatically. Hearing schedules will be transmitted over the weekend for the following week's hearings. To sign up for the service, call 410-783-1800 and enter code 7575.

The Sun is again offering a free fax broadcast of schedules for Maryland General Assembly committee hearings. To use this service, you must have a fax machine that can answer automatically. Hearing schedules will be transmitted over the weekend for the following week's hearings. To sign up for the service, call SunDial at 410-783-1800 and enter code 7575.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -Even judges have momentary lapses of judgment. But it's a pretty safe bet in this unpredictable election that Judge Terry P. Lewis will think twice before giving out his fax number again with CNN in the room. About midnight Friday, having just received the Florida Supreme Court's order to manually recount ballots statewide before a Tuesday deadline to name electors, Lewis set the case on a fast track. The Leon County Circuit Court judge ordered the recounts of more than 40,000 undercounted ballots to start immediately.

All-in-one machine from Samsung saves users time and money For those with limited funds and desk space, multifunctional devices such as Samsung's $399 Msys-5100P just make sense. With a plain-paper fax, laser printer, copier and scanner, this one box aims to be the Swiss army knife of PC peripherals. Setup is a breeze. Plug in the telephone line and power cord, and it's already a working fax machine and a desktop copier. As a fax, the 14.4 kilobits-per-second Msys-5100P features 10 one-touch speed-dial numbers and memory for 80 more.

Besides the telephone, what's the most useful instant communications medium?Right now, I'd vote for the fax machine. If you're involved in any form of business, you probably send and receive faxes every day. Fax machines are cheap, they're easy to use, and almost every office has one. Whether you're sending a fax across town or all the way to China, the only thing you have to know is what phone number to punch in.One of the reasons we can zip faxes around...

The fax machine has revolutionized the way we do business, but if you don't have a fax machine at home -- or you share one with too many others at the office -- you might as well be cut off from the simplest and easiest method of getting a document from Point A to Point B.That's why I was intrigued by a couple of new Internet services that offer free telephone numbers that will deliver faxes directly to your regular e-mail account. They're part of a larger movement to centralize all your messaging -- including e-mail, faxes and voice mail -- on the Internet, but unlike some of the schemes, these exist here and now. They can also save you a lot of time, paper and money.