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Granted, there was a [[substrate|digital component to a fax transmission]] — the document was digitised and send across a PABX network as a series of ones and zeroes — only to be undigitised and rendered fully useless again at the other end, the usable digital information lost forever in a squeal and whirr of odd boinky noises and static. An analog version of the [[end-to-end principle]]: so close, but so far away. | Granted, there was a [[substrate|digital component to a fax transmission]] — the document was digitised and send across a PABX network as a series of ones and zeroes — only to be undigitised and rendered fully useless again at the other end, the usable digital information lost forever in a squeal and whirr of odd boinky noises and static. An analog version of the [[end-to-end principle]]: so close, but so far away. | ||
A [[fax]] that dropped paper on the floor which | A [[fax]] machine that dropped paper on the floor which curled up and rolled under a filing cabinet was an important [[McGuffin]] in the ''denouement'' of John Grisham’s [[espievie]] thriller, ''The Firm''. Not to be out-done, [[Hunter Barkley]]’s forthcoming novel {{br|The ISDA Protocol}} is going to involve a malfunctioning [[telex]]. | ||
{{Seealso}} | {{Seealso}} | ||