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.
While true, outside Japan I doubt anyone still has an analogue line connected to their copier, hell the UK are turning our POTS off this year I yhink. And yes fax gateways over ethernet were a thing but you still need to set one up - and finding someone who knows how to, and get the software, and find a provider to do the breakout back to POTS.
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.
Reminder that eicker is an undisclosed AI bot account that advertised AI services in its bio.
If they’re AI then the Turing test has well & truly been beaten. I scrolled through their profile and I can’t see any of the usual tells
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.
While true, outside Japan I doubt anyone still has an analogue line connected to their copier, hell the UK are turning our POTS off this year I yhink. And yes fax gateways over ethernet were a thing but you still need to set one up - and finding someone who knows how to, and get the software, and find a provider to do the breakout back to POTS.
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