Once upon a time, I was quite hooked on the idea of receiving weather-fax signals and using a computer to view and print the resulting weather maps.
Back in 1987 (I think) I had a Tandy Model 102 note book computer that I wrote a program for which would display sections of a weather-fax map on the 240x60 pixel (40 x 16 character) LCD display. One time I even used my setup as a sort of "emergency" backup system after the weather-fax machine (using chemically treated heat sensitive paper) broke down on board the ship on which I was stationed.
Going a bit further back in time, apparently the future was looking bright for the Fax machine.
Here was an article I saw on Gizmodo....
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