Are you old enough to remember the Scitex Response 280?
In the picture you can see the CAD Input Digitization System, based on a color workstation and the large format drum-based Super Scanner. The system was designed to scan technical drawings in raster and feed them to a CAD system as vector data with certain amount of intelligence added to it.
The picture was sent to us by Shmuel Dekel (See ExScite Nostalgia section posting from: 12/11/2003 6:27:51 PM).
Hanan Drory is the regional sales director of Creo in charge of Asia Pacific and operating from Singapore. See a Gossip piece we posted on February 5, 1999 here.
Rami Liron is doing Business Development in Japan through his company TechWays Asia Pacific. Among his clients you can find the s/w company Babylon, Scitex Vision and others. He spends most of my time in Tokyo.
Rami was the President of Creo-Japan between 2000 and 2002. He joined Scitex Corporation in 1980 as Customer Support manager for Japan, a position he held until 1983. He then returned to Israel, where he managed the Customer Support organization of Scitex International until 1987, when he was transferred to Singapore to assume the role of Regional Manager, Asia. In 1989, he moved on to Hong Kong to work on market development in China. In 1992, Rami established the Scitex Asia-Pacific office and managed it for four years, leaving Scitex in 1996 to consult independently for hi-technology companies operating in the Asia-Pacific region.
When CreoScitex was formed in 2000, Rami joined as a Representative Director, taking responsibility for restructuring the Japanese subsidiary.
Any of you remember the Scitex Blaze workstation? well here is a nice screen shot, to see additional user-interface examples. The user-interface was designed by Etan Rozin, who’s the ExScite webmaster and the technical wizard.
One of our members has recently sent us a great Blaze QuickTime movie clip (click here to play the video, 2MB).
This Blaze-96 movie was created by Scitex America and distributed to the Scitex sales organizations around the world.
If any of you guys have a nice picture of the Blaze– please Email it to content@exscite.org.
The middle of the 80’s were the hay days of Scitex foray into the Engineering Graphics Market. The company designed and sold the Response 280 system for civil engineering applications. That business unit was later sold to Toyo Ink.
This picture was taken at the Scitex booth at the Isratech show in Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1984.
This was one of the first demonstrations of the Response 280 system for engineering solutions in the Cartography and Printed Circuit Boards applications.
In the picture, the ExScite Shmuel Dekel, then an application engineer at the Engineering Graphics group, is shaking hands with Israel’s President Haim Hertzog while visiting the show.
If any of you guys have a nice picture of the Response 280– please Email it to me.
Bob Caspe starts his fourth venture.
Located in Shebron MA, the Caspe Group is a consulting company that offers a broad range of experience in the imaging and audio industries. Their experience ranges to include product development, marketing and off-shore manufacturing. Their broad range of product development skills include embedded systems and PC based network systems.
Between 1995 and 2003, Bob was Founder and President of Sound Vision, Inc Framingham, MA. Sound Vision created a series of TV-centric digital image viewing products that were sold through a number of OEM resellers.
From 1986 to 1995 he was the Co-Founder and President of Leaf Systems, Inc of Southboro, MA. Leaf Grew to over 30M in sales without the need for any external financing and was subsequently sold in 1992 to Scitex, Inc. Leaf sold image processing equipment, which was used by newspapers and magazines. Leaf also lead the field of digital photography with several innovative products.
Bob first start up was CDA of Waltham MA (1974-1986) where he was the Co-Founder and President. CDA lead the array processor market with the first microprocessor based array processor which was sold to several CAT and MRI system manufacturers. It was later sold to Analogic Inc.,
Dr. Carey Mann, a long time associate of Bob Caspe, and a co-founder of each of three other companies, has also joined the Caspe Group.
I do not know who the dancer is, but she sure looks ExScite’ing, don’t you think? In the background sitting I recognized Yoel Stern’s mustache, but does any one recognize the person holding the microphone?
The picture was taken at the 20 years birthday party for Scitex in 1988 in Israel.
Want to see the belly button in greater details? click on the picture.
Christopher Gronier, the French ExScite has put online a great website with plenty of historical Scitex images. Check it out for backstage pictures of Scitex and CreoScitex events (1998 – 2000) at: www.gronier.com .
Christopher was Marketing Manager of Scitex France for 3 years in the late ’90s. From 2001 to 2003 he was the European Business Development Manager of VIO, the Scitex-British Telecom JV. He left VIO in march 2003.
Christopher informed us that he has just joined Electronics for Imaging France and has been appointed as Business Engineer (in EFI-Speak it means: salesman) for the PrintCafe and ERP software. Good luck Chris.
At a Mac-World in Boston, a huge Apple Computers event in 1994 (?), Scitex was one of only 8 vendors given space in their booth, to preview/demonstrate the newly launched Power Macs. Back then, scitex was not afraid to take on Quark and Adobe and emonstrated the big hope for desk-top publishing: Visionary+ Maskcutter+ ColorFill.
In the picture (click to enlarge) standing Marc Mascara of STA’s Visionary team and sitting on the left is STA’s Katheryn Nettles application specialist in the response center.