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Subject: Re: Xerox and selling Dovers
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 18:07:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 18:07:19 1985
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From: starkweather.pa@XEROX.ARPA


The point is that comparing the price of a highly product engineered
LaserWriter and a DOVER is an Apples and Banana's game (no pun
intended). DOVER would have cost no more than $40K if it had been
productized.  DOVER's also run at 384 per inch and that is something of
value. The DOVER has relatively modest to tolerable xerography which is
rendered superb in the LaserWriter. I lament like you that DOVER's never
saw the light of day but that is history, albeit unhappy history. There
was a proposal from myself and two others here at PARC to put solid area
xerography from the Fuji-Xerox 7200 in the printer, re-skin the machine
and productize the Alto orbit. The projected end-user price was about
$50 in volumes of several hundred machines. Alas, no market was thought
to exist by the vizier's of Xerox. By 1985 standards of course the
existing non-solid area DOVER, with text only capability and no duplex
is an old but reliable Buick. I would like to replace ours, but with
what? Maybe 50 Canon engines is not such a bad idea.

Cheers, Gary