From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxk!ajm55611 Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Title: Re: Is Xerox an Acronym? Article-I.D.: ihuxk.115 Posted: Thu Jun 24 10:06:06 1982 Received: Mon Jun 28 03:15:11 1982 Xerox is not an acronym, but a name from greek methology picked by a professor at OSU(ohio). I believe there was some god that had a double, or something like that. The professor was asked to come up with the name by Battelle Memorial Institute, the world's largest not for profit research center. The Haloid Corporation brought their idea to Battelle after Kodak, et. al. turned it down. Battelle developed the xerox process in return for stock. Several years ago they made 254million bucks off the stock; not bad for a not for profit organization! Al, the wonderdog. ihuxk!ajm55611 P.S Battelle also developed such goodies as the copper clad dime and quarter and Liquid Paper.