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ABC Victoria Evenings: Retiring the fax and old tech

You mightn’t use the fax anymore, but some places do, even as the technology’s use wanes. What will replace it, and what will it take for organisations who still use a fax to move on? Leigh Stark joins ABC Melbourne and Victoria to find out.

There’s a lot of old technology in the world, but not all of it has use anymore. For most of us in Australia, that’s very true of the fax, especially now that the digital era has kicked in. What has removed fax from our lives, who still uses it, and could it even work if you wanted to plug one in?

Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark joins ABC’s Casey Bennetto on the ABC Melbourne and Victoria’s Evenings program to talk about just that, plus other old technologies. To listen, tune in at Evenings on ABC, and fast forward to the 11 minute mark.

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