Word: xeroxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Xerox was one of the first companies to develop a local network system, Ethernet, which was announced in 1979 after six years of research. The firm has been hurt in recent years by slumping copier sales, but it hopes that Ethernet will help it regain its prominent position in office equipment. Xerox encouraged Digital Equipment Corp. to make computers that can run on its system, and has sold licenses for a nominal $1,000 to some 100 other companies to build compatible equipment. Says John Shoch, deputy general manager of office systems: "We don't sell Ethernet. We sell...
Such networks carry less information and operate more slowly than Xerox's or Wang's, but are easier for small companies to install and operate. Those telephone-based networks would provide another market opportunity for AT&T's new baby, which seems determined to get American computers to reach out and touch each other. -ByAlexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco and Bruce van Voorst/New York
Japanese firms, with their knack for producing well-made electronics products at a low price, are already overtaking U.S. manufacturers in some segments of the computer market. Japanese-made semiconductors are installed at the heart of many U.S. machines. IBM, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard all distribute Japanese-made Epson printers under their own labels to go with their personal computers. Experts estimate that up to 90% of American-built computers are now sold with either Japanese printers or monitors...
Bringing with him a reputation as a no-nonsense executive in previous senior-management positions at Ford and Xerox, McCardell at first did well, pruning corporate deadwood, tightening the budget, scrapping unprofitable products and boosting research and development. But his efforts to cut costs still further got him into a losing fight over work-rule changes with the company's unionized workers, most of whom are members of the United Auto Workers. This led to a costly six-month-long strike in 1979 that sent management-labor relations into a tailspin...
...Stonybrook. Clifford has written a play called Deathtrap, a sure-fire smash which turns his professor green with envy, and he brings it to the Hamptons for some polishing up. He also brings his outline and all his notes. No other copy of the play exists (the xerox is "on the fritz"); he lives alone; no one else has read his incipient masterpiece. Maces and daggers loom ominously from the walls, Sidney's eyes begin to gleam, and again things seem obvious...