SEPTEMBER 16

On this date in 1959, the Xerox Company introduced on TV its first plain paper copy machine, the model 914.  It was a miracle in its time.  I worked in fairly successful small businesses beginning in 1968 and never had a plain paper copy machine in our office until about 1980.  (We never dreamed of a FAX machine.)  

All letter writing was done on a typewriter with carbon paper copies.  Invoices were also done by typewriter; we used sets of carbonless copy paper manufactured by NCR in Dayton.  The typewriter was manual and you had to hit the keys firmly to get a decent copy at the back of the 4-copy paper set.  

I did the company's accounting for some years in the 1970's.  I had a big ledger book in which I hand wrote every transaction.  

In the 1980's, people were extremely worried about technology taking away people jobs.  It doesn't happen.  

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