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239: 227: 119: 215: 22: 264: 142:. A fax modem is like a data modem but is designed to transmit and receive documents to and from a fax machine or another fax modem. Some, but not all, fax modems do double duty as data modems. As with other 189:
products where standard features allow users to send a fax by using the fax phone number as the address of a E-mail message, and receive incoming faxes via E-mail with the Fax content presented as a
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alternatives. Where businesses still had one or more traditional fax machines churning out pages, they were usually outnumbered by PCs processing E-mail.
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Medical systems continue to use this technology into the 21st century, but many home and business users dropped the use of fax modems in favor of
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In the early 1990s small business PCs commonly had a PC-based fax/modem card and fax software (typically
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may be included to allow treating a fax modem as a printer. Fax integration is available in
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enables a computer to transmit and receive documents as
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Computer users may set up a PC fax/modem with card,
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