Japan keeping fax machines around suddenly looks less like resistance to progress and more like disaster recovery planning. Microsoft spent years selling the future of work, only for a paper tray and a dial tone to become the high availability tier.
I’ll guess any business grade copy machine can also do fax without much setup. Old protocols don’t just vanish. It was only microslop that went down, that shit is just not needed that badly.
Japan keeping fax machines around suddenly looks less like resistance to progress and more like disaster recovery planning. Microsoft spent years selling the future of work, only for a paper tray and a dial tone to become the high availability tier.
Old salaryman in boardroom: “This meeting could have been a fax.”
I’ll guess any business grade copy machine can also do fax without much setup. Old protocols don’t just vanish. It was only microslop that went down, that shit is just not needed that badly.
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