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  2. EURion constellation - Wikipedia

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    The EURion constellation is made up of five rings. The EURion constellation (also known as Omron rings [1] or doughnuts [2]) is a pattern of symbols incorporated into a number of secure documents such as banknotes, cheques, and ownership title certificate designs worldwide since about 1996.

  3. Xerox - Wikipedia

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    Xerox was the pioneer of the photocopier market, beginning with the introduction of the Xerox 914 in 1959, [4] so much so that the word xerox is commonly used as a synonym for photocopy. [5] Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, though it is incorporated in New York [6] with its largest group of employees based around Rochester, New ...

  4. Affiliated Computer Services - Wikipedia

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    Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) was founded by Darwin Deason and Charles M. Young, both former MTech Communications executives, in 1988. [6] Deason had served as CEO at MTech and decided to launch another data processing firm after a management buyout bid of him and other executives had lost to another bid in 1988.

  5. Photocopier - Wikipedia

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    A primary obstacle associated with the pre-xerographic copying technologies was the high cost of supplies: a Verifax print required supplies costing US$0.15 in 1969, while a Xerox print could be made for $0.03, including paper and labor.

  6. Word processor (electronic device) - Wikipedia

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    The mid-to-late 1980s saw the spread of laser printers, a "typographic" approach to word processing, and of true WYSIWYG bitmap displays with multiple fonts (pioneered by the Xerox Alto computer and Bravo word processing program), PostScript, and graphical user interfaces (another Xerox PARC innovation, with the Gypsy word processor which was ...

  7. Xerox 500 series - Wikipedia

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    The Xerox 500 series is a discontinued line of computers from Xerox Data Systems (XDS) introduced in the early 1970s as backward-compatible upgrades for the Sigma series machines. Although orders for the Xerox 530 were deemed "encouraging" as of January 1974, [ 1 ] the systems had failed to gain traction by the time Xerox sold its Data Systems ...

  8. Service bureau - Wikipedia

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    The purpose was to provide access to then-state-of-the-art Tab Equipment [5] rather than own basis. Keypunching at Texas A&M. Keypunching (a term that long-preceded "data entry") was often part of what was offered. IBM 029 Keypunch machine. As Batch processing systems replaced Tab Equipment, [6] service bureaus, from the mid 1950s, [7] could ...

  9. Dot matrix printing - Wikipedia

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    The LA36 used the same print head as the LA30 but could print on forms of any width up to 132 columns of mixed-case output on standard green bar fanfold paper. [41] The carriage was moved by a much-more-capable servo drive using a DC electric motor and an optical encoder / tachometer. The paper was moved by a stepper motor.