[Titan Magroyne]

...I remember using the original "fax" machine (I forget what it was called) in the early '80s where you put your phone in a cradle and your document on a drum which spun around.Teletype?

WTG Buckhead, TankerKC and all who contributed to exposing Mary Mape's ephemeral little wet dream for what it was!

[IonImplantGuru]

"...I remember using the original "fax" machine (I forget what it was called) in the early '80s where you put your phone in a cradle and your document on a drum which spun around."

Teletype?

Naah, I thought teletype, then TELEX (same thing really), then I remembered these babies:

which is what I think Lancy was referring to.