external U.S.robotics fax modem

[der.hans]

Am 19. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin Harold,

> I figured you are busy with other things. I myself keep busy too.

I have looked in the garage. I thought I knew exactly where I had put the
fax modems. It turns out I do not. That's what I get for cleaning things
up :).

I did run into a fax project for Nextcloud.

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/pax_fax

I haven't looked at it, so absolutely no idea if it'll work for what you
need, but if it does, then you're not dependent on hardware old enough to
drive.

ciao,

der.hans

> On 3/19/22 12:02, der.hans wrote:
>> Am 11. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss so:
>> 
>> moin moin Harold,
>> 
>> My apologies, I haven't gotten the chance to look in the garage. I should
>> have time today or tomorrow.
>> 
>> ciao,
>> 
>> der.hans
>> 
>>> I would like that. Thanks. It be helpful to me to have my computer send 
>>> and receive fax’s.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, at 23:14, der.hans wrote:
>>>> Am 10. Mar, 2022 schwätzte Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss so:
>>>> 
>>>> moin moin,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a couple old external modems if you need one. I haven't ever used
>>>> them for fax, so no idea if that works. Actually, no idea if they work,
>>>> but I ran into them while cleaning up the garage a couple weeks ago.
>>>> 
>>>> If I can find them again I can take pictures to see if they look like
>>>> models that will work. If they will, I can likely run them up to you 
>>>> next
>>>> week.
>>>> 
>>>> For editing uneditable images I've been using xournal since Ted 
>>>> mentioned
>>>> it years and years ago. I mostly use it for PDFs, but I think I've used 
>>>> it
>>>> for PNG and JPG as well. Perhaps I first converted them to PDF. Dunno.
>>>> 
>>>> Even if you still have to fax using a tool like xournal might at least
>>>> save you some dead tree time.
>>>> 
>>>> ciao,
>>>> 
>>>> der.hans
>>>> 
>>>>> I'm looking to setup my computer for faxes sending and receiving. I'm 
>>>>> looking at using the U.S. robotics fax modem but unsure if the two fax 
>>>>> software made for Linux will support it as I would be using a USB 
>>>>> adapter for serial port connection to the fax modem.
>>>>> Anyone out they have any suggestions or advise how I should setup my 
>>>>> Linux box for using faxes or what to watch out for type of problems. 
>>>>> This fax modem is the only thing I can think of as I am low income and 
>>>>> don't have much money for the month. I once used such a modem with 
>>>>> Linux a couple of decades ago when I use to run a ham radio gateway 
>>>>> back in Maine. But I used a script for the fax modem to make the 
>>>>> connection. So it will run with Linux.
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>

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