Talk:Xerox/Archives/2013

Put back deleted info?

It seems on June 1st 2006, User:212.219.94.65 deleted a lot of information without reason, such as an Office Paper section. I suggest putting some of this back. - Jazzmaphone

Yes, I agree. Seems odd in the entire article, not a word about Joe Wilson. It mentions other less important CEOs. What is going on? AlexFeldman (talk) 11:17, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Huge cleanup

I've performed a huge cleanup on this article, removing POV, restoring some old information and adding a lot of new information. Now the article needs more photos, and references. Anyone interested in helping? — Wackymacs 17:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, the article still contains strong POV and still reads like a commercial presentation. Thanks for your effort, but we need to do more. 1) Read the section on the economic doldrums of Xerox between 1980 and 2002-- it's practically missing. 2) The section on the poor accounting practices a half-decade ago reads like it's intended to excuse, not explain with NPOV. 3) The overall article reads like a brochure intended to court investment and instill confidence that Xerox has never done wrong and always grown. Sethnessatwikipedia (talk) 02:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I did another cleanup - I guess seven years isn't bad. Mostly I reorganized the text that was there, trying to put it in some logical order. I added a paragraph about the Xerox tower and made some minor tweaks. See my comment under "Office Products Division" - there's a serious shortage of hard info that can be found on the web. Peter Flass (talk) 00:34, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

First laser printer

The article states that the first commercially available laser printer was the 9700 in 1977, but IBM had the 3800 available in 1976. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luckydog429 (talk • contribs) 04:47, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

I found a reference that mentions the 1200 as the first commercial laser printer. Peter Flass (talk) 00:29, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Office Products Division

The article mentions Rochester/Webster and PARC, but is missing anything on Don Massaro and the Office Products Division in Dallas which, I believe, built not only electronic typewriters but the Xerox personal computers. Xerox has about the worst case of corporate amnesia I've found, and there isn't a lot of material anywhere on this. Paul Strassman mentions OPD once or twice. Peter Flass (talk) 00:28, 2 November 2013 (UTC)