PHOTOCOPIERS
In the early 1990s a teenager telephoned the sales office of every photocopier maker in Sydney — for a school assignment — and built the finest brochure archive on the upper North Shore: filed alphabetically by marque, then ascending by copies-per-minute, with a red magazine in protective plastic at the front. After his final exams, the whole collection went to the bin.
This site is the reprint run — and now the sequel. 885 machines across two registers: the 411 of the golden decade, and the 474 still shipping in 2026, catalogued with sources. Two magazines — the red one rebuilt, the blue one new. One filing system, vindicated twice.
The census
885 machines — 411 classic (1990–2000) · 474 modern (2026) · 289 verified · 363 partial · 233 known only by name. The gaps are honest and they are the point: this archive marks what it cannot prove and asks for help.
The Modern Register
The royal-blue sister edition, 2026: twelve marques where twenty stood, filed by segment because everything does 25–75 ppm now. Where the noise went, who films it, and who falls asleep to it — the sound trilogy and the full register. Every plate original; nothing withheld.
The Case Files
CLOSED: the Roscoe File — Switching Channels (1988), Ike Roscoe, hiding inside a Canon NP-7550. CLOSED: the Gremlins 2 console — a Xerox 1090, identified in footage preserved by the Xerox Nostalgia archive; star restored. OPEN: The Firm (1993) — Tammy Hemphill’s nocturnal copying carried the entire third act on machines this archive still cannot name. If you can, the filmography awaits, and the editor’s gratitude is standing.
Submissions
Did you run one of these machines? Sell them? Fix them at 4:45 on a Friday? The archive accepts corrections, spec sheets, brochures, photographs and testimony: me@gethryn.com. Every accepted correction is credited and every figure keeps its source. Unverified stays unverified — the research department is firm on this point.