PLease wait until I sell cell phones...I'd love to get you a rate plan!
Actually, all kidding aside, I think you'll have trouble with a cell phone
due to the very low baud rate that they transmit at.
Dave
On Friday 10 May 2002 22:11, you wrote:
> I've been wondering about the feasability of the following as a
> home-based business idea.
> At the courthouse where I work, there are constant requests for
> copies of papers from court files. The papers are usually standard 8 1/2
> X 11", with occasional 11 X 14 sheets. There are no arrangements for
> immediate transmission of copies. Either one must order by something like
> FEDEX, or send someone in to get the copies, and then take them to an
> outside fax. The courthouse has fax machines, but will not fax documents,
> and has no current arrangements to accept credit cards.
> I'm thinking that, if I got a Linux-based laptop with a built in
> scanner, with a cell phone/fax attachment, I could make copies, and
> transmit them countrywide, maybe even worldwide. The cell phone/fax would
> have to be able to work indoors in an area difficult to use a standard
> cell phone in, due to being the ground floor of a three story building,
> and the room having about a dozen aluminum frame structures to store
> court file folders in. One would operate roughly 15 feet in front of
> these, so I don't know how much of an interference they'd be. I do know
> that some cell phone users have to step into the hall to speak and hear
> on their cell phones.
> The scanner would have to be industrial strength, to handle making
> about 750 copies a week. I would basically scan in and transmit the paper
> images, either by fax or e-mail. Probably fax would be best, so as not to
> congest email bandwith.
> I'd probably accept credit card orders with something set up with a
> www web site. Don't know what else I'd need.
> I know that the courthouse will go to having papers on computer and
> available via internet in "a couple of years". The computer will be
> phased in by then, and I suppose new files will be that way, but older
> files may be a while before they are converted.
> I would probably try and handle the Hillsborough area at first, then
> consider expanding to Pinellas, and maybe Pasco, to try handling the
> entire Tampa Bay area.
> Any thoughts about needed equipment, costs, etc.? I'd probably want
> the best batteries, too, maybe nickel-metal-hydride?
>
> Frank Starr
>
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