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Re: Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal

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Post by Bokanovsky » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 8:06 PM UTC

thspimpolds wrote: post #40

Bokanovsky wrote: post #11

I used to work at Xerox as a software developer, about 15 or so years ago, as a fresh young graduate. It was interesting, but also at the same time kind of weird. You noticed that there were lots of young graduates, but also lots of old staff. With very few people in-between that age range. You'd then realise they'd get graduates and utilised them until they left. While the older staff generally got to a certain sala…

This is pretty accurate. I mean, I’m sure you remember the xww intranet prefix. Such odd quirks there

Oh, yeah. I forgot about all the xww prefix for the intranet.

I remember having a debate with another developer. He thought that an IP address started with 13 (13.X.X.X) was a generic internal IP address like 192.168.X.X.

At the time Xerox owned the whole 13. Address block.

Re: Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal

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Post by lobf » Thu, Feb 01, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #47

lobf wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The computer will never be as important to society as the copier," -Xerox executive, quoted from The Innovators.

There's a lot of truth to that. Think of just how much paperwork healthcare, government, banking, etc. all generate.

Things that computers are gradually making irrelevant, no? Can a copy machine eventually supplant computers? Of course not. Copy machines don't have a fraction of the functionality of a computer obviously.

Re: Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Fri, Feb 02, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

lobf wrote: post #52

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of truth to that. Think of just how much paperwork healthcare, government, banking, etc. all generate.

Things that computers are gradually making irrelevant, no? Can a copy machine eventually supplant computers? Of course not. Copy machines don't have a fraction of the functionality of a computer obviously.

My point is that computers are most certainly not making paper irrelevant. If anything, there's more paper now than ever.

Re: Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal

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Post by aoki » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

Bokanovsky wrote: post #11

I used to work at Xerox as a software developer, about 15 or so years ago, as a fresh young graduate. It was interesting, but also at the same time kind of weird. You noticed that there were lots of young graduates, but also lots of old staff. With very few people in-between that age range. You'd then realise they'd get graduates and utilised them until they left. While the older staff generally got to a certain sala…

i think you’re referring to “Zombieboard” (eric saund published some papers on it in the 90s). it was installed in most meeting rooms, not just a demo room.