14 Dec
1998
14 Dec
'98
6:39 a.m.
> > I have an EMS 5800 in my collection, Hans.
> You have ? You didn't show me - realy a EMS 5800 ?
> With Siemens label ? DId they realy reimport them
> to the USA ? What a joke :)
I got it only a few weeks ago. And yes, it is the
Siemens labeled 5800 in
the light grey case.
Witch model is it exactly ? Do you also have the laser printer unit ?
EMS 5800 is the family name (and also the only name on the first
series - the later models had also distigtive numbers on the front.
I got it from one of the engineers at Xerox PARC who
worked on the Star/Daybreak team.
Wow - great - try to get documentation, info, whatever - I would
be especialy interested in material (and stories) from 'the
other side' - I know some stories and have some material from
Siemens people.
Did Siemens have an exclusive market in
Europe to market these machines, which are otherwise known as the 6085 (or
Daybreak?) in the U.S. and other countries around the world.
I don't know, but I guess in Germany at least - beside two original
labeled units in a R&D department at Hoffmanstrasse, I never have
seen any Xerox units in Germany.
I realy love Viewpoint. I don't think anybody needs more PC
at work than this system (no mater on which hardware). As I
said earlyer around 1980 these machines (hard- and software)
have been my impression of state of the art office (desktop)
systems and I still can't belive the outcome.
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK