From January 1987: Staff members with Sussex's new fax machine. Photo published in the Bulletin on 13 January 1987

Yes, this week in 1987, an article in the Bulletin proudly announced the arrival of a fax machine.

Promising the “instantaneous transmission of documents”, staff were offered the chance to “find out more about the FAX machine and what it can do”.

Here is an extract from the original article published in the Bulletin on 13 January 1987:

Why not fax it?

A facsimile, or FAX, machine for the instantaneous transmission of documents, by telephone line, to similar machines anywhere in the world is now in operation in the Sussex House Machine Room.

Charges are:

Transmission

Within the UK:

1^st page                       £1.50

Subsequent pages      £1.00

Outside the UK:

1^st page                       £1.50

Subsequent pages      £1.00

            Plus the costs of the telephone units used

Received copy

No charge for receiving incoming documents.

Receipt of incoming documents is free. But please ask people sending you documents by FAX to indicate on them who they are intended for…

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