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...average $5.000 a year (rates: $95 monthly and 3.5? for every copy over 2,000). American Photocopy, SCM Corp., and Charles Bruning Co. now sell rival electrostatic copiers, but they require special papers. Xerox (which dropped the Haloid from its name in 1961) will come out with a smaller, desktop 813 dry copier next fall (probable rent: $40 a month), is developing a machine to apply xerography to facsimile transmission of documents by radio waves. Though Wilson expects the demand for the 914 to begin to slacken after mid-1963. he counts on the company's 550 patents...
...disappointments and ultimate breakthroughs, the computer in 1961 passed through the awkward stage and got down to serious work. This year, for the first time, sales and rentals of computers topped $1 billion, and the number of computers in the U.S., ranging from giant brains down to small, desktop convenience models, doubled to 9,000. Performing with even greater versatility than its inventors had dared to dream, the computer now touches every kind of business at every level...
...basically educated typewriters. Linked to either a punch taper or a computer, they can do such tasks as filling out orders and calculating accounts. Smith-Corona also will have on the market within a year a photo copier that may turn out to be its hottest product yet: a desktop size, electrostatic model, which will reproduce letters on dry, coated paper in less than three seconds at a cost of only 3½?-4? per sheet. It will probably be priced around $700, far less expensive than bulkier dry-copy models. With such new products on the way, Mead expects...
...When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown area. Dowling, then adviser to Equitable Life Assurance, came to the rescue. At a meeting in his office, he advised Pittsburgh planners to stop thinking small about a mere four-block housing project. On his desktop, he sketched a 23-acre project of ten large office and commercial buildings grouped around a gardenlike development. Total cost to date of what is now known as the Golden Triangle: $92 million...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...