Xerox 9900

I loved this machine. Was ACT trained under the threat of scratching the belt during pumicing and cleaning would lead to job termination. Lol I never damaged one, hated cleaning those croutons tho! Looked forward to the 5090 and those organic disposable belts!!!

I have a feeling that the guy in the photograph is Dan Rosenburg one of the Human Factors Engineers based in Rochester NY

Of all the machines I serviced during my Xerox career I enjoyed working on this one the most. If my memory is correct Mellon Bank downtown Pgh had one and ran 1 million copies a month. month in month out.
P.W.

I joined Xerox as a PST working on 1045’s and was promoted to FST a year later. I remember going to Leesburg for training on this and the other centralized products (9400 & 9500). I loved working at Xerox back then (1984 – 1996).

I have a mainframe for one if there’s an interest, I’ll send a picture.

My favorite of the entire 9000 series! That sorter / finisher was amazing. The OIM! (Operator Interface Module, or CRT) That was so futuristic back when personal computers were only just starting to hit big. I could watch it run for hours (and sometimes did, waiting to catch an intermittent jam). And the timing of the document feeder when running duplex jobs, dividing into sets of 7, so by the time the 7th Side 1 was through, the first Side 2 was already in the chute! This is the only product design name I remember hearing about before the product… Read more »