Flashback to the days when big companies are still regularly faxing documents to each other, and this pilot fish at one such company is doing everything from database admin work to data entry.

"One client of our small database group kept faxing multipage updates for their database, instead of emailing the files to us," says fish.

"Between the tiny font and the poor quality of the faxes, it was nearly impossible to tell a number 1 from a lowercase L, or a zero from the letter O."

"We asked them to send their next update in a larger format.

"Three days later, a long shipping tube arrived in my office. The client had printed their data, in 12-point text, on 3-feet-by-4-feet drafting paper!

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