http://www.cnbc.com/id/100945451

 

Not that it's directly related, but my next computer (currently in pieces on my shop bench) is getting ECC RAM.



I fail to see how this could be anything BUT a recent development. Surely the accountants out there would have noticed if it had been going on for long.

 

I worked on copiers not to long ago, none were Xerox. I never saw or heard anything like this, but I do have to wonder, why are the Xerox's trying to store that much information that they require that sort of compression? Ours (Minolta, Toshiba, Sharp, Oce`) could run at decent speeds and no issues with buffering the raw image data going from the scanner, through the image processor, to the laser or LED bank. It was treated like a picture. It didn't attempt some sort of "Oh I see a 6!" that I am aware of, but when it handed that same data to the scanning controllers, that was a different story.



The oddest thing I saw the image processing board do was send a signal to the laser causing a double image. Everything looked like it was in bold unless you copied a very thin line, then you would see it create two. They, Minolta actually requested that board back for testing because it confused our higher tech people. Then there was the demon machine The LCD unit went a reddish color and it started growling. The growling was a fuser rolling that got a flat spot, but I never got an explanation on how a blue LCD unit went red. The call notes were a bit funny.

 

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