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| siverson914 wrote:
| Neat. This part:
|
| > The machine was mechanically complex. It required a large
| technical support force,[2] and had a tendency to catch fire when
| overheated. Because of the problem, the Xerox company provided a
| "scorch eliminator", which was actually a small fire
| extinguisher, along with the copier.[1]
|
| Sounds a lot like the Porsche 914 too. :)
| AlbertCory wrote:
| It was the profits from this that made Xerox PARC possible, a
| little over a decade later. Xerox's monopoly on copiers was going
| away, and they thought they'd get ahead of the curve and invent
| the _next_ generation of office technology.
|
| In my 6 1/2 years there, I never met anyone who worked on optical
| copiers, and never went to Rochester or Stamford (although lots
| of friends did). I certainly did meet lots of people working on
| the new generation of laser printers.
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