Re: Xerox 800 Word Processor 1974 promo film - cctalk

11 Jul 2022

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  On Jul 10, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
&lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote:

 On 7/10/22 13:41, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:

  On Jul 10, 2022, at 4:10 AM, Christian Corti via
cctalk &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote:

 On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, Grant Taylor wrote:
  I don't know that I've ever heard / seen
the name "Rank" prefixing "Xerox" before.  
 Actually I knew them only as Rank Xerox many years ago, when they were commonly known as
office suppliers, e.g. photo copiers and printers.  
 Is the "Rank" prefix part of the company name in Europe?    
 For a time, it was even present in Japan.

 The Rank Organisation.  Surely you've seen some old British Pinewood
 Studios films with J. Arthur Rank's big gong as an intro? 
It's vaguely familiar.

Another part of the Rank organization, at one time, was precision measurement company
Taylor-Hobson.  I remember several of their their instruments in the metrology lab at U.
Eindhoven.

	paul