Not Corruption

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/4/17 4:46 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> You did the right thing posting here. I have a client who runs into
>> problems all the time, so we schedule a Skype session where I can see
>> what's going wrong. Invariably, as soon as she tells me about the issue and
>> I'm watching her screen, she immediately figures out the reason without my
>> help.
>
>
> When I was in grad school in the late 90s, I chatted at a conference with
> another grad student who spent time at the university support desk.
>
> He just couldn't find what was going wrong with the professor's fax modem
> attempts over the phone.
>
> Finally, "Let's go back to the beginning.  What file are you trying to
> send?"
>
> File?  What file?
>
> "The one that you want the computer to send"
>
> No, it's a document; I want to fax it.
>
> The good professor was holding his document up to the screen . . .
>
>

Sounds remarkably like a possible urban legend I read, where a secretary 
was asked to copy a floppy disk, so she put it into the Xerox machine.

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