Copy and gift from the company

In the late 90s, when it was too difficult for us to publish a book, and the methods for printing courses on the printer we were already finally tormented, we had another office copier broken. Sitting the whole company and appreciating our hard fate, we decided for six months not to receive any premiums, and all the money to spend on the purchase of the beauty copier Xerox. I no longer remember the model number, I only know that the size is slightly lower than the refrigerator, slightly wider, on wheels and with funny displays. Super is! He had seven pots and he was able to turn the paper. This was the first duplex device in our lives, which means you won’t have to sit at the printer and turn the sheets! Hurra comrades!

And this is the day when Gazelle came with our acquisition. We all dropped our computers and went to the first floor of the Business Center to meet. The workers took the copy from the body, handed it over to us and left. All four of us drove him to the elevator. And then the law of wickedness - the cargo elevator, as always, broken, and the old Soviet passenger elevator did not enter this miracle of technology literally 1 centimeter.

The only decision was made: the male part of the team on the stairs lifts the copier to our Seventh Floor, and the female part of the team prepares a place for the copier in the office and we have tea. To tell us that it was hard for us and that by the time we put it on the wheels on the sixth floor we were all exhausted – it is to say nothing (the mother words about the manufacturer company and the broken elevator mastered everything, including the then director, a man by definition intelligent). The only correct decision was made: move your hand on the warranty seals, develop the copier into spare parts and raise it higher in parts.

Then there was the discovery. In the real sense. The ladies, printing the scotch with which the copier was wrapped, joyfully that it contained a business card from the seller's firm and all of its seven bits were filled with paper as a gift (1000 sheets in a bowl, a total of 14 packs of paper).