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...serious prospect circa 1980. Indeed it is only one of the intriguing possibilities that they see resulting from the inevitable next step in office technology: a marriage of the computer and the photocopier to produce a hybrid system that could be called either a computer that copies or a copier that computes. The computer in such a system would store items in its capacious memory bank-a monthly mailing list in the case of the mailorder house-and electronically direct either nearby or distant copiers to reproduce material. The major questions are how soon such a system can be developed...
They are fateful questions for both companies. The potential applications of a computer-copier system add up to an enormous new market-and some striking changes in the American office. For example, such a system could do away not only with the need for bulk mailings of advertising material but also with the necessity for office managers to keep bulging files of letters and memorandums. The wording of such documents could easily be stored in the memory bank of the computer part of the system and reproduced instantly on the copier part whenever necessary. Whichever company wins the research battle...
...Xerox's 1971 sales of nearly $2 billion and profit of $213 million would compare favorably with almost anything except IBM's figures of $8.3 billion gross and $1.1 billion net. Xerox also confronts a tougher technical and financial challenge. Computer technology is much more sophisticated than copier-making expertise, and computer manufacturing is vastly more expensive. Moreover, most computers are leased to customers rather than sold, and it takes a long time for the manufacturer to recover in rentals the cost of making and installing the machines...
...paper in stock. We'll have to order it." The clerk dials the firm's main office in Boston and then attaches the telephone receiver to a copying machine. A few minutes later, page after page of an impressively researched paper, transmitted from Boston, rolls off the copier...
...equipment to photograph the breast. The difference is in the developing. Instead of X-ray film, the xero-radiograph uses a selenium plate that has been specially treated to make it sensitive to X rays. Once exposed, the plate is inserted into a processor similar to an office copier, where it is "developed" electronically. The result is an exceptionally accurate Xerox "picture" of the breast, its internal tissues and any cancer that might be present...