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What's Inside a Fax Machine? -- The Electronics Inside 13

 

 

Fax Machines, are they confined to history? Are they a relic of an earlier time? What electronic trickery did these classic icons have?

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  • Great to see this video. Seeing the insides of the fax machine reminded me of a thing schoolkids do here called 'work experience' at about 15 years old.. they get to spend a week annoying local firms : ) My work experience was at a fax machine repair company (banks would lease the machines from them too). It was fascinating taking apart the machines for their spare bits collection.. high voltage power supplies (for the scanner lamps etc), CCDs, opto-emitters and detectors (for paper feed) etc.. lots of cool stuff : )

    Anyway, I remember visiting a bank with one of the staff-members, and the security card reader attached to the fax machine had a lock, but the spare key was tacked inside the fax machine : ) in case the repair engineer forgot to bring the correct key to the site.

    Subsequently having learned that, I noticed a similar thing at the local library photocopier.. there was a coin slot attached and the key to override it (for free photocopies) was taped to the back of the photocopier!

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  • Great to see this video. Seeing the insides of the fax machine reminded me of a thing schoolkids do here called 'work experience' at about 15 years old.. they get to spend a week annoying local firms : ) My work experience was at a fax machine repair company (banks would lease the machines from them too). It was fascinating taking apart the machines for their spare bits collection.. high voltage power supplies (for the scanner lamps etc), CCDs, opto-emitters and detectors (for paper feed) etc.. lots of cool stuff : )

    Anyway, I remember visiting a bank with one of the staff-members, and the security card reader attached to the fax machine had a lock, but the spare key was tacked inside the fax machine : ) in case the repair engineer forgot to bring the correct key to the site.

    Subsequently having learned that, I noticed a similar thing at the local library photocopier.. there was a coin slot attached and the key to override it (for free photocopies) was taped to the back of the photocopier!

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