[Magdalen] Computer Question.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jim G >a new roll of wet-paper fax would be run out with huge
stack of pages scattered around with more to come when they put the new roll 
in.
The record was close to 2,000 faxes, sent one at a time from my auto-parser 
over
a weekend.


Reminds me of my brief 2 year stint as a registrar at a small private 
graduate school in Houston...  their standards could be, hmmm, well...

We often had issues with some students creating amazing 'stories' about late 
papers, plagerization etc...

One morning we came in to about 40 sheets of blank paper strewn on the floor 
in the room where the fax was.  A student claimed : "I must have run it 
upside down"....and then had 'lost' the paper after she faxed it to us...

Lynn

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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:41 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Computer Question.

>> My gf, who has a dumbphone, emails them to herself via text
>> message, then logs on and downloads them to her hard drive.
> Reminds me of dealing with this installing a fax modem in my office c1987 
> (could it be almost 25 years ago?!?!?!).
>
> The objection was that you could write all the memos and letter you like 
> and send them, but couldn’t put a signature on them.
>
> Easy Peasy -- send a copy of all the signatures you'd need in the office 
> from someone else's FAX machine and then copy and paste into the document. 
> Voila!
>
> Of course, that was with a boss who insisted that he wanted a traditional 
> FAX machine -- and spent a heap of money on a plain paper machine with all 
> the bells and whistles (they were expensive then) AND, being as anal as he 
> was, insisted it be in his office that was locked when he wasn;t around.
>
> He got a "new" fax number, and the company fax remained on the PC at the 
> reception desk. We forwarded everything the boss needed to see (menus, 
> advertisements, stuff handled before he came in again, etc.) and more --  
> and our chief engineer went further and sent enough menus to his machine 
> that it would run out of paper, which meant when he came in, there'd be 
> menus (and ads) scattered around his office, with the paper out and when 
> he'd put more paper in, it would crank up with all the backlog.
>
> After awhile, he started turning the FAX off when he wasn;t going to be in 
> the office.
>
> Problem solved.
>
> Then there was the time a boss (three jobs later) insisted that I send a 
> fax to a customer every time they sent an error in an electronic document 
> (requested by the customer's owner). This was a customer who thought they 
> could do Electronic Data Interchange with a Word Macro -- one would need 
> to be a genius.
>
> I created a parsing program for their files, and every time there was an 
> error, there was a new fax -- sent automatically. So they'd send a huge 
> document and then the next morning, a new roll of wet-paper fax would be 
> run out with huge stack of pages scattered around with more to come when 
> they put the new roll in. The record was close to 2,000 faxes, sent one at 
> a time from my auto-parser over a weekend.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie