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Furthermore, Eck enjoys the bustle in the streets in India without the West's telephones, Xerox machines, or computers to speed the pace of life...
...expects a quick payoff. He makes up his mind swiftly, acts decisively, moves quietly and seems to have an impeccable sense for where technology and markets will meet. Says California Financier Max Palevsky, who made a fortune as a founder of Scientific Data Systems, a mainframe computer maker that Xerox acquired in 1969 for $950 million: "Arthur has an incredible intuition. His nose never ceases to amaze...
...offer our hearty congrats To barrier-breaker young William M. Batts. But mum's the good word, we can't talk about that, One's taught to keep stuff like that under one's hat. Instead, we'll keep matters decorous and clean By buying Greg Lyss a new Xerox machine To run off his thousands of letters pristine While still saving money for Council and Dean...
...techniques used by the two firms are not new. In fact, the first electronic mouse was developed by a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute, in the mid-'60s. Xerox sold the first product with some of these features, the Star computer system, in 1981. Apple Computer further refined those ideas in its Lisa; that machine was hailed as a technological triumph when it was released last January, but has sold poorly because of its high price (originally $10,000) and poor marketing. Last month IBM introduced a $5,500 desktop machine that gives windowing capabilities to corporate clients...
...stumbled badly when it set out to produce an office copier in the 1970s. Executives first turned down a chance to buy a process that Xerox later used with great success, and then introduced a balky model. Admits Gary: "If you're asking was it a mistake to ship so many copiers before they were really reliable to sell, yes it was a mistake." The company was forced to suspend deliveries until the problems were solved...