Xerox - Revision history

Jnc: Link to Xerox 860 Information Processing System

2025-10-10T10:15:55Z

Link to Xerox 860 Information Processing System

Jnc: /* External links */ +documentation at Bitsavers

2025-10-10T00:09:07Z

‎External links: +documentation at Bitsavers

Jnc: XDS was sold off, not closed

2025-07-29T00:38:47Z

XDS was sold off, not closed

Jnc: Call out 'SDS Sigma series'

2025-07-29T00:35:06Z

Call out 'SDS Sigma series'

Larsbrinkhoff: Resolve link for Sigma 9.

2025-07-11T07:12:07Z

Resolve link for Sigma 9.

Jnc: /* External links */ +Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe computer system; from Paul Allen's collection at the LCM

2025-04-25T13:49:04Z

‎External links: +Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe computer system; from Paul Allen's collection at the LCM

Jnc: /* External links */ +Office Systems Technology

2023-10-04T00:11:45Z

‎External links: +Office Systems Technology

Larsbrinkhoff: Category: Xerox

2022-05-04T13:45:31Z

Category: Xerox

Tingo: added some other computers made by Xerox

2020-05-16T17:06:22Z

added some other computers made by Xerox

Jnc: Software too

2018-12-18T17:51:42Z

Software too

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 Xerox attempted to turn that research into a product, the [[Xerox Star]] line of [[workstation]]s, but again could not make a success out of it.
-Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
+Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox 860 Information Processing System]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
 Other companies, such as [[Apple]], [[Microsoft]], etc went on to turn the PARC research into products that forever changed computers.

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 ==External links==
-* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/8010_dandelion/OSD-R8203A_Xerox_Office_System_Technology_Jan1984.pdf Office Systems Technology - A Look into the World of the Xerox 8000 Series Products: Workstations, Services, Ethernet, and Software Development]
+* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/ Xerox] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]
 * [https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection/xerox-sigma-9-mainframe-computer-system-119/230056 Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe computer system] - from [[Paul Allen]]'s collection at the [[Living Computer Museum|LCM]], includes several images
 [[Category: Manufacturers‎]]
 [[Category: Xerox]]

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 '''Xerox''' tried several times to get into the computer business, but never succeeded - but in the process, a research laboratory they set up, [[Xerox PARC]], produced enormous accomplishments which changed computers forever.
-Xerox' first move into computers was to buy [[Scientific Data Systems]] makers of the [[SDS Sigma series]], in 1969, renaming it Xerox Data Systems, but they could never work out how to make a successful business out of it, and closed it in 1975, losing hundreds of millions of US$.
+Xerox' first move into computers was to buy [[Scientific Data Systems]], makers of the [[SDS Sigma series]] of [[mainframe]]s, in 1969, renaming it Xerox Data Systems. They could never work out how to make a successful business out of it, and sold it off in 1975, losing hundreds of millions of US$.
 PARC produced several generations of ground-breaking [[personal computer]]s, starting with the famed [[Xerox Alto]], along with support technologies such as [[Ethernet]] and [[laser printer]]s.

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 '''Xerox''' tried several times to get into the computer business, but never succeeded - but in the process, a research laboratory they set up, [[Xerox PARC]], produced enormous accomplishments which changed computers forever.
-Xerox' first move into computers was to buy [[Scientific Data Systems]] in 1969, renaming it Xerox Data Systems, but they could never work out how to make a successful business out of it, and closed it in 1975, losing hundreds of millions of US$.
+Xerox' first move into computers was to buy [[Scientific Data Systems]] makers of the [[SDS Sigma series]], in 1969, renaming it Xerox Data Systems, but they could never work out how to make a successful business out of it, and closed it in 1975, losing hundreds of millions of US$.
 PARC produced several generations of ground-breaking [[personal computer]]s, starting with the famed [[Xerox Alto]], along with support technologies such as [[Ethernet]] and [[laser printer]]s.
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 Xerox attempted to turn that research into a product, the [[Xerox Star]] line of [[workstation]]s, but again could not make a success out of it.
-Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[SDS Sigma series|Xerox Sigma 9]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
+Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
 Other companies, such as [[Apple]], [[Microsoft]], etc went on to turn the PARC research into products that forever changed computers.

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 Xerox attempted to turn that research into a product, the [[Xerox Star]] line of [[workstation]]s, but again could not make a success out of it.
-Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[Xerox Sigma 9]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
+Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[SDS Sigma series|Xerox Sigma 9]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].
 Other companies, such as [[Apple]], [[Microsoft]], etc went on to turn the PARC research into products that forever changed computers.

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