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They plucked the name for their nascent company straight from a dictionary, according to one of the firm’s founders, John Sytek. “It’s a geometric figure that’s a parallelogram with another parallelogram cut out of the corner,” he said...
...Xerox was a short, unusual name for a good copy machine, so we wanted a short, unusual name for a good copy service,” said Sytek, a former nuclear engineer who later became a New Hampshire state legislator and is now a high school Latin teacher. “The fact that it was a geometric figure and we were engineers—it was serendipitous...
Xerox rented a machine to Sytek and his dorm mates?...
...Gnomon grew, so did its competition. “People looked in our window and pretty soon everyone up and down the street was doing the same thing, and we had pretty much played out the interest we had,” Sytek said. “We didn’t have the business desire to do anything more—we were engineers...
...When we sold off, everyone wanted to keep using the name because of the tradition, because of the goodwill associated with it,” Sytek said...