Time Passes All Dinosaurs

Have you got some “good stuff” that you “haven’t had very long” that “works really well” and you “will never got rid of it”?

Case in point – our fax machine operated well up until about 6 months ago. Then, it developed this interesting quirk – it would give a “Dark Paper Used” warning, which is supposed to let you know that the fax coming through is on dark paper, so you can elect not to receive it. This saves you from using lots of ink (yes, it was an ink cartridge model).

The only problem was that the sheet wasn’t on dark paper and it wouldn’t let you clear the message. Plus, when you gave the ok for it to print the page, it would print that page, as well as any other faxes that had been sent that day. Which meant that whenever we got a fax, we got 10, nine of which we had already printed, some of those nine times …

So, was time for the old unit to go. But I faced opposition. It was a “good machine” that we “haven’t had very long” that “works really well” and we “will never got rid of it”. It turns out that it had been a good machine that we had for 10 years that worked really well up until 6 months ago and that we needed to dispose of.

The new one is a laser machine that prints 5 times the pages using a cartridge that is half the price of the old cartridge and the new machine cost one third of what the old one did 10 years ago … and that’s without inflation.

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