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Webster & Xerox: The Early Years
The following is the fifth in a seven-part series. We hope you’ll enjoy. Excitement ran high in Webster in the fall of 1960. In downtown Rochester, the Xerox 914, the world’s first-ever automatic, plain-paper copier, had become a runaway hit since its introduction in September 1959. The press confirmed Haloid-Xerox Inc. as the world leader of the market, signaling tremendous interest from the investment community. Xerography—from “xeros” and “graphein,” Greek