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Jacqueline Henry writes: First computer in my library was made by Xerox - believe it or not. I am not sure they were made for general sale. -------------------------------------- In the early 80's I worked for an office automation vendor who sold a product called NBI (That stood for Nothing But Initials.) and we sometimes competed against Xerox. In those early days we had some word processors with 48k of internal memory and they used 8 inch floppy disks. NBI was ahead of its time. They linked these machines together with a network server that had a full meg of memory and a whopping 120 Meg hard disk that stored data for several workstations. They also came out with a standalone PC with dual floppy drives. When the internal hard disks came out there was a 10 Mb version available. The really funny thing is that we sold those computers for about $10,000. We also sold daisy wheel printers which were so loud that we sold big sound covers to deaden the sound. With the sound covers, they looked really huge--bigger than a good sized copy machine. Ah--memories. Marsha Redd Librarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI marsharedd@hotmail.com Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student. Everyone is a teacher. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------