[ale] OT: step into the wayback machine!

[Jeff Lightner]

In a prior incarnation I worked in the hotel industry.  When fax
machines first became commercially available they were in the range
$2000-$3000 so we only had one at our hotel in the General Manager's
Executive Admin's office.   We had a saleswoman who wanted to send a fax
so she came to my boss and asked him to send it since the Exec Admin was
gone for the day.

He started to put it in the feeder tray to send when the woman says
"Stop!  I need to make a copy so I'll have one after you SEND it."

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Brian Pitts
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: step into the wayback machine!

Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
>
> I'll take a raincheck on this one. I can't even stand the sound of our
> fax modem on the HP All-In-One.
>
In an office I worked at, the sales staff insisted that a perfectly good

fax machine be replaced because it didn't have a speaker. Without all 
the buzzes and whirrs, they never believed it was working.

-Brian
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