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-A machine which affords bragging rights, both for those<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref> who can remember having the use them, and those who can’t<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>.
+The successor in “almost-immediately obsolete contraptions” to the [[telex]] machine, nowadays the [[facsimile]] machine is mostly useful for affording bragging rights, both for those<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref> who can remember having to use them and what they were for, and those who can’t<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>.
+A fax that ran out of paper was an important [[McGuffin]] in the ''denouement'' of John Grisham's [[espievie]] thriller, ''The Firm''.
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 *[[Dictaphone]]