shull@WHARTON-10.ARPA ("CHRISTOPHER E. SHULL") (08/15/86)
Since posting my "Tale of Xerox marketing woe" a week ago Saturday,
I have gained a new, awe-struck respect for the power of the ARPAnet (CS,
BIT, USE, and any other nets). In three days I have received 21 electronic
mail messages, 6 from Xerox personnel, in response to my query. In
addition, I received 4 telephone calls, and a very appropriate set of
glossy brochures on Interpress, Interpress printers, Interpress tools
for UNIX, and a copy of the May 1986 issue of "Courier" via Emery Overnight
Express. (I even got a mysterious call from DEC about their PS-40.)
Additional information continues to trickle in and I thank one and all
for sharing their knowledge and experiences with Laser-Lovers. I trust that
others benefitted as much as I did.
While most of the responses came from folks in R&D, they had all
passed my message on to appropriate marketing people. I even got some
good information from them. I am still digesting it, but the gist seems
to be that there is an Ethernet version of just about every laser printer
Xerox makes. These are the machines that run Interpress. Granted, there
are subset implimentations, but the machine that seems to be right for my
application is the 4050.
Now I have to figure out whether our PC, VAX, Apollo, and PC/RT software
packages have Interpress drivers, but that means I have to figure out what
those packages are.
For those of you who missed the recent message from
<Dennis_G._Frahmann.ESCP8@Xerox.COM>, he is the person to turn to after
getting stuck with the local salespersons.
Thanks again to all the folks who took time to answer my query.
-Chris
Christopher E. Shull
Decision Sciences Department
The Wharton School Shull@Wharton-10.ARPA
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 215/898-5930
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