RIP: Fax Machine
For years at the office we had a plain ol' fax machine: you drop a page in the
hopper, you key a phone number, your document gets sent. Life was easy.
NOW we have a monstrous scanner/copier/collator/printer/emailer with a touch screen and PC keyboard and a complex embedded Windows application; I'm required to log in using my active directory ID and navigate a half-dozen screens. I'm prompted to select resolution, orientation, magnification, and add the destination fax machine to an address book. Then I'm invited to configure a cover page, and receive permission to scan the single piece of paper I want to send. After tapping the "send" icon (ARE YOU SURE? Y/N) the fully customized fax image migrates to a send queue, and I'm obligated to logoff from the damned contrivance (ARE YOU SURE? Y/N). Some timeless interval later the fax gets sent or not, but I don't know which.
Technology run amuck. The IT k1dd13z make me nuts.
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