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Xerox Products

BYTE Magazine

July 1985

Xerox recently announced the 6085 microcomputer, a line of personal microcomputers, and a laser printer. The Xerox 6085 is offered in models for network, remote, and stand-alone operation. The networked and remote models can share resources linked by Ethernet.

The Xerox 6085

The Xerox 4045 Laser CP

The 6085 is founded upon Xerox's Mesa processor, an 8-MHz device. The Mesa processor has 256 auxiliary registers and executes 48-bit-wide instructions. The 6085 also uses an 80186 chip as an auxiliary processor.

The basic 6085 comes with 1.1 megabytes of memory, a 10-megabyte hard-disk drive, two serial ports. and a 15-inch high-resolution (880- by 697-pixel) monochrome display. You can expand it to include 3.7 megabytes of memory and up to 80 megabytes of hard-disk storage.

Xerox offers hard-disk drives with 20, 40, or 80 megabytes of storage, and a 360K-byte floppy-disk drive is also available. An optional board gives the 6085 the ability to run software prepared for IBM PC-DOS.

System software includes the ViewPoint windowing package, which uses icons and is controlled with an optical mouse. ViewPoint is $125. A variety of applications software, including a software-development package, is planned.

The 6085 begins at $4995.

The Xerox 6060 family of PCs comprises four computers: a pair of IBM PC work-alikes, the Xerox 6064 and 6065, and two dedicated word-processing systems, the Xerox 6067 and 6068. The 6067 and 6068 keyboards have been modified for word processing. Both systems come bundled with Xerox's word-processing software and can run MS-DOS applications software.

Each Xerox 6060 comes with ScreenMate, a menu-based shell program for interacting with MS-DOS.

The general-purpose 6064, with two 360K-byte floppy-disk drives and 256K bytes of memory, retails for $2885. The hard-disk-based 6065 lists for $4485.

At $2985, the 6067 includes dual floppy-disk drives and 384K bytes of RAM. The 6068, which is equipped with a 10-megabyte hard disk and 512K bytes of memory, costs $5150. Both the 6067 and the 6068 use a 640- by 400-pixel monochrome display.

Xerox rates its 4045 Laser CP "Iasographic" printer at 10 pages per minute and 5000 pages a month. It comes with 128K bytes of memory, two fonts, and your choice of Centronics or Dataproducts parallel ports or an RS-232C asynchronous connection. Additional cartridge-based fonts are offered.

If you choose to expand the 4045 Laser CP to its full 512 K bytes of memory, you can reproduce a 5- by 7-inch image in a 300- by 300-dot-per-inch format. You can reproduce a full-page graphic at 150 by 150 dots per inch. The 4045 Laser CP has a 250-sheet paper cassette, and cassettes for European paper are available. It's compatible with the Diablo 630 daisywheel printer.

A copier option lets the 4045 Laser CP function as a standard photocopier. Other options include an envelope cassette, an interface that permits four PCs to share its resources, and a network interface for linking the 4045 Laser CP to IBM 3274/3276 networks and Systems 34/36/38 environments. The suggested list price for the 4045 Laser CP is $4995

Contact Xerox Corp., Xerox Square 006, Rochester, NY 14644, (716) 423-5078.

Copyright 1985