Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Drummond]

The NHS wet using Fax until quite recently. It was the only way they'd accept and send certain communication.

[Gareth]

The NHS wet using Fax until quite recently. It was the only way they'd accept and send certain communication.

I worked on the original NHS Fax removal project back in the early noughties :-)

[dr.chekov]

I once had a summer job with a company owned by Plymouth Brethren. They accepted orders by fax but wouldn’t have a fax machine (let alone computers) on the premises. So, they paid the company next door to use their machine and one of us would go round every morning to collect the faxes.

[Drummond]

The NHS wet using Fax until quite recently. It was the only way they'd accept and send certain communication.

I worked on the original NHS Fax removal project back in the early noughties :-)

Well they were still using it as recently as 2020 at least (I think possibly later but Covid has confused things) . I know because I wanted rid  of fax but we had to keep it to satisfy the NHS team we worked with!

[Beard82]

I once had a summer job with a company owned by Plymouth Brethren. They accepted orders by fax but wouldn’t have a fax machine (let alone computers) on the premises. So, they paid the company next door to use their machine and one of us would go round every morning to collect the faxes.

Ha - I briefly worked with Plymouth Brethern - making there websites.

It wasnt the easiest. 

[Gareth]

The NHS wet using Fax until quite recently. It was the only way they'd accept and send certain communication.

I worked on the original NHS Fax removal project back in the early noughties :-)

Well they were still using it as recently as 2020 at least (I think possibly later but Covid has confused things) . I know because I wanted rid  of fax but we had to keep it to satisfy the NHS team we worked with!

Probs still there & in use :-)

[UK Redsox]

I wonder how many on here (probably more on Villa Talk) know what a Fax machine is?

who still has one ?

Finally got rid of my personal one last year.

Still got one in the office, but I don’t think it works

Had to use Telex as well, back in the late 80s

[ozzjim]

Bloody fax running out of toner all the time. I'm 42 and there was an active fax at work until 2011-12 ish. I'd imagine most born in the 90s only know a fax from watching deadline day lol

[Beard82]

Fax machines and printers the baine of my life as an "it" professional.

The amount of times that I worked places and lost apparently dozens of sales because the fax had run out of paper or ink.  Last IT manager role I did finished in 2014 but the fax was still vital then.  Mind you it did finish cos we went out of business

[Tuscans]

🚨 NEW: Galatasaray want to sign Aston Villa goalkeeper Emi Martínez — negotiations are ongoing between the clubs.
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[cdbearsfan]

Galafuckingtasaray? Doubt that very much.

[Drummond]

If he were to go, I'd be happier with there than anywhere.

[eamonn]

Don't Turkish clubs often run out of money after making a big signing? The £60m upfront in full, lads. And if Gala can't pay your salary after 6 months, tough shit, Emi.

[Border villan]

Given the often volatile nature of Turkish football Dibu could fit in well.

[LeeS]

We had a fax machine in my last job and it was still used when I left in 2019. We had to send signed instructions to fund managers to disinvest money and a fax was permitted where an email wasn’t.