In battles with the office fax machine he usually came off worse.

ECONOMIST: The unacknowledged giant

From 1992 through 2000, Ms. Burns led several business teams including the office color and fax business and office network printing business.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Prosecutors have sought phone records from reporters before, but the seizure of records from such a wide array of AP offices, including general AP switchboards numbers and an office-wide shared fax line, is unusual.

WSJ: Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records

Then there's the question of how Perusquia got away with sending what appear to be false account statements from a fax machine in its San Francisco office.

FORBES: Ay, caramba!

The evidently fake statements, which bear the number of a PaineWebber fax machine in the firm's San Francisco office, listed some of the gold stocks Lerma owned, but with false share prices.

FORBES: Ay, caramba!

And he made regular use of a private office across the street from Commerce, where he used phones and a fax machine.

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In many cases this is true: many office telephone systems use two-digit dates, as do some security systems, fax machines and copiers.

ECONOMIST: Please panic early

Sharp's new UX-B800SE Broadband Fax does the usual boring squelchy phone thing, oh sure, but it also has an Ethernet connection allowing you to send PDF or TIFF scans (two-sided, if you prefer) of your documents via email, as well as receive analog faxes and email them to you if you're like the tethered office drones of yesteryear, waiting around all morning for so-and-so's fax.

ENGADGET: Sharp launches UX-B800SE Broadband Fax