Captain Tom

I realized I didn't really have a good shot of Tom -- just the first one and that's of his back. This is from a set of proofs for a brochure or some marketing material, probably around 1986.

The Altstadt, Drupa 2000

Dave is convinced that this is Drupa 1995, I'm not sure sure; I think it's 2000. Regardless, I'll let Dave tell the story: "The other photo was taken down in the old town, Schlosser Alt, and there appears to be three rabbits and an 'alien' to the right of John Svinicki ! Don't know who is the guy in the dark coat [Dean Grimm]. I think we all must have some 'schnapps' as John is the only one who appears to be upright!"

Harlequin dinner at IPEX

Dave says this was a dinner somewhere in Birmingham arranged by Harlequin during the IPEX show. Left to Right: Dave, Mark Ford!, me, Jim, Scott, (not sure, Dick?), not sure, Dick Tibbits, Ian, Lisa, Ethan Edwards and Brent Tennefoss.

Drupa 95

I saw Dave last week and he promised a few photos he had stashed away. This was taken at Drupa in 1995. Doug (then with triple-I), Karen, Dick and Dave.

John and Steve

I found a bunch of contact sheets from some company shoot. Here are a couple of prizes: John and Steve dressed up.

The new Xitron

Al, Tom's partner / salesman, showing off the construction sign in front of the building and land that Tom bought for the 1428 East Ellsworth building. Business must have been pretty damned good at this point. This was even before the heyday of the XM-16. We were in this building until 1994. When he sold Xitron, Tom kept the building and later C-Text was in it and now it's owned by some pig farming, bio-tech company.

Betty

Betty made cables and for the first 10 years of Xitron's existence cables were a big part of the magic. Betty was a wonderful person, I doubt anyone ever had a bad thing to say about her. A whole army of her daughters worked at Xitron at various times.

Company photo

Company photo from around 1985, pre-Svinicki, since the guy he took over for is in the front row at the right. I worked with about half these people: Terry and Betty, second and third from the left, front row; Jessie, Captain Tom, second and fourth back row; Carol, Bruce and Bonnie back row at the right.

The pop machine

Just like the old days. This machine has been around since very early on.

Pat-san

r-dot in super secret sales negotiations. No doubt buying a car on ebay.

Bob Dobbs

At Pat's cabin. John, Bret, Scott, Jim, Bob Richard and Pat.

Up north

Vince, Paul and Glen drilling a hole for either ice fishing or empty beer cans.

Khaki Day, part 2

John and Lisa waiting as we assemble for dinner. Print or GraphExpo 2004.

Khaki Day

Drupa 2004.

Cocoa

The infamous cocoa shot. Lisa, Paul H, Karen, Bill and Paul C. (who you will notice has a pint).

Somewhere in Dusseldorf

After a long day on the stand at Drupa 2004. Clockwise from left: Glen, Jay, Bret, Karen, Bill, Jim, R.Pat and Lisa.

Rolf

Drupa 2004. Jacob, Jeffrey and Rolf on our stand.

Kyoto 2002

June of 2002 at a meeting in Kyoto. Jim, Pat and Wild Bill. Compai.

Constant motion

Joyce, Jeffrey and Jacob. It's not surprising that Jeffrey is a blur.

Chris

I don't think Chris was happy about me taking this.

Team Xenith

Paul and Jeffrey hard at work in the conference room. 2002. Note two generations of Xitron coffee cups.

Tom C

Sitting in Steve's office. A true Michigan Man.

Bret

Newly hired, Fall of 2002.

Kern

Hey, hey, hey for the K.K. 2002

Emmo

Dave working in the Engineering lab in 2002.

Julian B

Julian with Wild Bill in Tokyo in 2002.

Marc F

Obviously a posed shot of Marc at 3768. He had a second monitor for his Mac laptop which you can just see in the background.

Scott

Scott at his desk in the old engineering area at 3768. Ping pong table and Lino 300 in the background.

Experience like we did

Mr. Sunshine admiring some classic show signage.

Jeffrey

Jeffrey during setup at Print or GraphExpo in 2005. Big bike rider, if you can't tell from the shirt. One show Jeffery brought a collapsible bike in a bag to ride back and forth to McCormick.

Wild Bill and R. Pat

Wild Bill and Pat-san at the door of my office.

Doug

Here is Doug in the Engineering lab working through lunch. Doug did a number of our USB interfaces and a USB emulator. Born and raised in Ann Arbor.

Me and Wild Bill

Your host and Wild Bill.

Wild Bill and Shawn

A shot of Bill and Shawn working on Japanese translations for RIP Manger in early 2006. Bill helps us out when we visit and sells and supports some of our products.

Johny and John

A shot of John doing what "we do". He's working on a large format drum film recorder in Taipei with our dealer there. This was the Fall of 2006 and it's the trip that did John in.

Yet another ex-employe

Scott Fletcher and his wife Hillary waiting for the festivities to start.
 

Gary and John

Gary Rendall and John. Gary worked in production do board testing and repair and systems testing. He got smart and moved to sunny Florida.
 

Rick

This is Rick Fortson and Chris, a friend of John's, at John's fireworks shoot in 2004. Rick is the person that hired me at Xitron.
 

A modern shot

Time for a picture that didn't need to be scanned. Just so the sales people know how hard we work during show setup, here are Eric and Paul busting their butts at Print '05.
 

More picnic, more Toby

Gary, Scott, Toby and Julie Svinicki at one of the Hudson Mills picnics.
 

Xitron picnic

This is at one of the two picnics that John Svinicki organized at Hudson Mills. That's my only shot of Wendy Darland there on the left, Karen Grant, Sue Ramseth, Scott and Regina and Gary Forszt leaning in front of Toby.
 

Dano

True, not a Xitron employee, but Dan Goldman did a lot for us. This is at Ifra in Amsterdam with a service engineer from the Triple-I offices in the UK.
 

Wendy Treichel

Wendy did our marketing from about 1992 to 1995. She is either moving out of her office on Ellsworth or into the new one on Plaza Drive, so this is 1994.
 

A Dave action shot

Here's Dave hard at work on some ratshit pc. Anyone spot the IPU chassis in the background? What about the Wyse terminals?

 

Karen and Jack

Karen Grant and Jack Liu in the back of the Plaza drive offices.
 

Dave Galle

Here's Dave manning the Support Manager's desk around 1996. You might remember he lived here for the better part of a year.
 

Toby

It's time for a picture of Toby. This is around 1995 back in open office area at Plaza Drive. Note the Dilbert strips over his shoulder.
 

Steve and his old Tectronics scope

This picture says it all...

The famous Jack shot

Here is the original Jack Liu photo that John used in the plugin manuals. Probably Plaza Drive around 1996. 

One of Betty's daughters

I think all of Betty's daughters worked at Xitron at some point. Here is ???(anyone?) back in manufacturing at 1428.
 

The early Harlequin days

Andy Edwards (Bear) my fellow AppleTalk compatriot, Dave Miller and me at Harlequin.
 

Peter with a tie on!

That's Peter standing in the middle in 1990 when he worked at Harlequin. On the right is Dave Miller coaxing a Golfer out of our brand spanking new Protected Mode Dos RIP!
 

The evil Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown in 1988, and I know because I took the picture. That's a CCI front-end on the left and a Xitron Image Processor (XIP) on the right. We're at a printer called Harlan in Cincinnati.

Mr. DataMaster

Lance Smith working on his baby, the New York Times DataMaster. 

John and his favorite dye sub printer

Here's another guy from the early days, althought this picture is from 3768 Plaza Drive around 1997.
 

Mr. G

Here's Tom's right hand man for more years than either can probably remember. This guy was around when there was beer in the pop machine and they did shots of Cuervo at Friday staff meetings. We had the good fortune of having him around for a second stint in the late 90's.
 

Steve and Tom

This is the braintrust of Xitron at least through 1993. Steve and Tom at the bench at 1428.