Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, the information is then transmitted as electrical signals through the telephone system. The receiving fax machine reconverts the coded image, printing a paper copy.[1] Before digital technology became widespread, for many decades, the scanned data was transmitted as analog. The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982. It's development was almost parallel with the desktop computers, yet in its very beginnings was very expensive heavy and non profitable for the public. in the 70's the appeared definitely but its battery was heavy as lead coffin and it would not least to much time It was the first communication way with the internet world. this could not be absent in the must influential gadgets from the digital era. Trough it's "strange noises" we connected to internet at speeds that back then seems to be stratospheric. Developed in 1981 by Hayes Communications, the modem provided bidirectional communications between people and developed the internet use massification in the society. Once the green light was given, other communication devices came out to birth but in essence the basics remains the same. Smart Phone Modem Other 80’s Technology / icons Compact Disk FAX Machine 8 0 ’ s T e c h n o l o g y
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Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, the information is then transmitted as electrical signals through the telephone system. The receiving fax machine reconverts the coded image, printing a paper copy.[1] Before digital technology became widespread, for many decades, the scanned data was transmitted as analog.
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and play back sound recordings only, but the format was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982.
It's development was almost parallel with the desktop computers, yet in its very beginnings was very expensive heavy and non profitable for the public. in the 70's the appeared definitely but its battery was heavy as lead coffin and it would not least to much time
It was the first communication way with the internet world. this could not be absent in the must influential gadgets from the digital era. Trough it's "strange noises" we connected to internet at speeds that back then seems to be stratospheric. Developed in 1981 by Hayes Communications, the modem provided bidirectional communications between people and developed the internet use massification in the society. Once the green light was given, other communication devices came out to birth but in essence the basics remains the same.
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This one has revolutionized the market to the absolute limits. In just 25 years has evolved to become one of the must brutal high-tech gadgets and small size there are today. The Motorola DynaTAC was the first mobile phone in 1983 and weighed the tremendous figure of 780 grams, almost a kilo phone, looking beyond brick and a briefcase containing the battery to talk for not very long. At its inception, the mobile phone was so expensive that only could afford the rich CEOs and ostentatious.
Never a simple thing caused so much revolution!. Developed in the 60's it was not but two years later when it rockets sky high, becoming an essential gadget for the use of a personal computer. it was called mouse because it remains us the sympathetic rodent. it made the use of the computer an easy task, and people fell in love quickly with it, leaving behind the use of key combinations and contextual menus.
Seems like we have skipped some steps, but not. it is clear that printers where a gadget that helped the communication and information technologies a lot , in our homes we have the ability to have any script, book (or ebook) as we are talking about a impressum.
It's development was almost parallel with the desktop computers, yet in its very beginnings was very expensive heavy and non profitable for the public. in the 70's the appeared definitely but its battery was heavy as lead coffin and it would not least to much time
This one has revolutionized the market to the absolute limits. In just 25 years has evolved to become one of the must brutal high-tech gadgets and small size there are today. The Motorola DynaTAC was the first mobile phone in 1983 and weighed the tremendous figure of 780 grams, almost a kilo phone, looking beyond brick and a briefcase containing the battery to talk for not very long. At its inception, the mobile phone was so expensive that only could afford the rich CEOs and ostentatious.
It begun it's evolution in late 70's, with those "smaller" units, reducing it's size in comparison with it's predecessor of the past decade. Scelbi, Mark-8 altair, IBM 5100, Apple I and II, TRS-80 and the Comodore pet, where the first models coming as personal computers. At the very beginning there where a lot of problems with compatibility, like unholy keyboards, mouses!? monitors didn't met colors yet and a lot of disadvantages that made this computers, like a giant expensive calculator. So IBM low prices, so this gadgets became more popular with people, The IBM PC presented in august of 1981, gave a green light to the insane IT race that continues until our days.
The first big gadget which showed up in the multimedia industry, this gadgets resulted very heavy intrusive and burdensome with all that forward and rewind, however it represents the first stone in the digital media exchange tower, and of course the development of the leisure economy, in 1950 you already had the ability to record everything showing on T.V and also movies you rented in your favorite video club. There was a format war featured by JVC and it's VHS and Sony and its betamax, is still quoted today to represent one of the biggest corporative wars, model of all kind of hostile actions between great corporation
A known proverb dictates: "a child is only different of a man by the price of his toys" (lately not even that, seriously guys toys are getting expensive :s) . It was 1975 when Magnavox and Atari presented the world famous pong, which consisted in a black screen with two lines and a dot bouncing accross the screen emulating some sort of tennis or ping-pon.
