How the Xerox 914 gave rise to the Information age.

12 June 2010 - THE MOST UNSUNG birthday in American business and technological history this year may be the 50th anniversary of the Xerox 914 photocopier. Although it was introduced at New York’s Sherry-Netherland Hotel on September 16, 1959, commercial models were not available until March 1960. The first machine, delivered to a Pennsylvania metal-fastener maker, weighed nearly 650 pounds. It needed a carpenter to uncrate it, an employee with “key operator” training, and its own 20-amp circuit.

Atlantic Magazine - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-mother-of-all-invention/8123/