Sharp UX-108 fax machine

The era of single-purpose fax machines affordable enough for home office use was a short one. Not long after fax machines like this came on the market, the manufacturers decided to switch to inkjet/laserjet printing systems and just make printer/fax/scan/copy combination machines. I'm sure you can still get fax-only machines, but they're certainly a rarity among small offices. What all this means, to bring it to a point, is that it's not very surprising to me that this is the only fax machine I've ever found.


Visually, it basically looks like what it does. The style is very much of its time period, that transition between really boxy electronics and today's overly-styled electronics.


The handset receiver, which looks blue in this shot for some reason. Basically hollow inside, except for the tiny little mic and speaker.


This machine came with a partial roll of thermal fax paper still installed. It doesn't have any perforations, and the slick surface isn't good for writing or drawing on. Basically, it's not good for anything beyond being fax paper, so I threw it out. That pretty much sums up why the market was so quick to switch to plain-paper fax machines.


Despite basically being a printer, the inside of the fax really wasn't very complicated or photogenic.


Lots of buttons on sprues.



Not a bad harvest, on par with the average printer.