Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call
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Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

ON CALL By the end of the working week it can be tempting to phone it in, but The Register instead works to bring you extra amusement in the form of a new edition of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Orson” who told us they very much enjoyed the recent On Call about the lawyer who didn’t understand italics. “It reminded me of an incident many years ago when I was a Facilit
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