That's fascinating. But what was the modulation scheme? What was the printing mechanism? Achieving this, stand-alone without user intervention in a 100% analogue system sounds like a story worth a bit more technical detail..
I think the radio facsimile (the "proper name" for fax-by-radio, still used for weather bulletins sent to ships at sea) page on Wikipedia [0] should shed some light.
I remember writing a "wefax"decoder for the Atari 800XL that grabbed these weather facsimile signals off a shortwave radio. The code was published in a magazine, though the name escapes me at the moment. I thought it was pretty amazing, as a kid, to see images appear slowly on my screen while listening to the dulcet tones (ha!) of the wefax audio stream.
Sorry, but as much as I'd like to take the credit, I didn't author the article... By I "wrote" I meant I typed it in. I can see how my choice of words gave that impression, though, and I feel awful! I am truly sorry!
