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Default OT Why is the fax machine not dead

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:02:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
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On Apr 16, 6:31*am, Phisherman wrote:

Fax machines are obsolete but many small businesses still use them.
Many people still resist paperless. *Filing cabinets are still around,
but less of them unless it's government.


Bwah, hah hah. Every month I give our CFO a report on engineering
hours, on paper. He types them into Excel. I've offered to send him
the hours already in Excel, but he'll have none of it.

Cindy Hamilton


That is what happens with my Medical Labs too. My main hospital is
about an hour and a half drive, so they let me do labs near home.
The local lab faxes the labs to my hospital and they have to enter the
results into the computer.

I asked once why they didn't just send them the Excel file. She said,
these computers are not connected to the Internet.