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Fnord666
on Thursday February 01 2018, @05:43AM
from the oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen dept.
from the oh-how-the-mighty-have-fallen dept.
The once mighty Xerox corporation, inventor of the photocopier, the graphical user interface, ethernet and the workstation is no more. Today it has been announced that Xerox is to be acquired by Fujifilm, with whom it had the joint venture FujiXerox, for $6.1 bilion.
In recent years, much of Xerox's previous, and quite recent, acquisitions have been sold off including Tektronix in Willsonville, Oregon (acquired for its solid ink technology) and Affiliated Computer Services.
Back in 2011, Xerox entered into a partnership with Indian outsourcing firm HCL, transferring thousands of engineering staff, including most in the UK and mainland Europe.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday February 01 2018, @01:21PM
I used a xerox 3000 and 3200 back in the early 80's. programming language was called DACL (diablo app compiler language, iirc).
the hard drives were 5 or 20 meg 'winches'. I have no idea how much they costed, only business would be buying those. the computer was the size of a desk, back then, and the 'winch' was like a filing cabinet that sat next to you.
a pdp11 was also current at the time and higher end customers would buy that, instead.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."