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           00101    1011100000000110     00110    10011    1110    00110111001011111001010    00111   100001  0111000110
          000010  000110100110001101    10111    00010   11010   0110111110100100101101000    10001  0110001100100101000
         000110  01110       000111    001001   01010  1010000  00010      00000    01000    01001       111001         
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  TAYLORIX WAS FOUNDED IN 1921 BY J.P. STIEGLER AND K. HAUSSER IN STUTTGART, GERMANY TO IMPROVE THE COPANY ORGANISATION AND ACCOUNTING.
THE NAME WAS TAKEN FROM FREDERICK WINSLAW TAYLOR (1856 – 1915) WHO'S INTENTION ALWAYS WAS THE IMPROVEMENT OF LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY AND AT LEAST COMPANY'S BENEFIT.

THE COMPANY DEVELOPED SEVERAL SOLUTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE ACOUNTING LIKE MANY ACCOUNTING MACHINES.
ONE OF THEM WAS   C O N T O F I X   - A CARD BASED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM, WHICH WAS ADDED TO (TORPEDO) TYPEWRITERS ALREADY IN 1939.

THE ACCOUNTING MACHINES WERE ALWAYS IMPROVED AND LEAD TO VERY FAST BOOKKEEPING (MACHINES) LIKE THE   F I X O D A T A   OR   F I X O M A T   SERIES.

IN 1966 TAYLORIX FOUNDED A COMPUTER CENTRE IN STUTTGART, GERMANY, WHICH PROVIDED EXTERNAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING.

IN 1970 THE COMPANY INTRODUCED THEIR FIRST ELECTRONIC ACCOUNTING COMPUTERS, WHICH WERE PRODUCED AT FIRST BY TA (TRIUMPH ADLER) AND LATER ALSO BY DEC (DIGITAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY).

THE MID 70S WAS THE ZENITH OF TAYLORIX: IN 1978 ABOUT 1400 EMPLOYEES WORKED FOR TAYLORIX.

IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 80S, THE BOOM OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS DMINISHED THE NEED FOR AN EXTERNAL ACCOUNTING PROVIDER MORE NAD MORE, SO TAYLORIX TRIED TO RELEASE SOME COMMODORE, IBM OR SIEMENS MADE PERSONAL AND ACCOUNTING COMPUTERS, WHICH COULD WORK AS INDEPENDANT OFFICE COMPUTERS AS WELL AS DIALOG SYSTEMS FOR THE COMPUTER CENTRE.

HOWEVER IN 1988 TAYLORIX WAS TRANSFORMED TO AN INCORPORATED COMPANY, WHICH' MAJORITY WAS HOLD BY PORSCHE.

IN 1994 THE DESINTEGRATION OF TAYLORIX WAS STARTED, AND BY 1999 THE COMPANY TAYLORIX DIDN'T EXIST ANYMORE.
 
 
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  SELECTION OF MODELS - SORTED BY DATE (APPROX.) AND TYPE:

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 | YEAR | MODEL                          | FUNCTION / TECHNICAL DATA                                                  |
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 | 19?? | CONTOFIX                       | ACCOUNTING SYSTEM FOR TYPEWRITERS                                          |
 | 19?? | ZEILOMATIK (SEVERAL MODELS)    | TYPEWRITER WITH ACCOUNTING FUNCTIONS                                       |
 | 196? | FIXOMAT (SS, SE, V, VE, VS)    | ACCOUNTING MACHINE                                                         |
 | 196? | FIXODATA (SEVERAL MODELS)      | PRINTING DATA ENTRY SYSTEM                                                 |
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 | 1971 | (FIXOTRONIC) 8000              | (= TA 100/2) ACCOUNTING/ OFFICE COMPUTER                                   |
 | 1971 | (FIXOTRONIC) 8500              | (= TA 100/3) MAGNETIC LAYER ACCOUNTING/ OFFICE COMPUTER                    |
 | 1972 | 510/1 510/2 510/3              | (= TA 10/1 TA 10/2 TA 10/3) ACCOUNTING COMPUTER                            |
 | 1973 | SYSTEM 9                       | (= TA 1000) 2 - 20 KB, 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE COMPUTER                        |
 | 1974 | SYSTEM 9/1 9/2 9/3             | (= TA 1000 10 20 30) 4 - 64 KB, 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE COMPUTER               |
 | 1975 | 510/4                          | (= TA 10/4) ACCOUNTING COMPUTER                                            |
 | 1975 | SYSTEM 9/4 9/5                 | (= TA 1000 ??) 8 - 64 KB, 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE COMPUTER                     |
 | 1977 | SYSTEM 6/1 6/2                 | (= TA 20 SE NP) 3 KB ACCOUNTING/ OFFICE COMPUTER                           |
 | 1977 | SME                            | (= TA 21) 9 KB DATA ENTRY SYSTEM (SYSTEM MAGNETBAND ERFASSUNG)             |
 | 1977 | SYSTEM 9/6 9/7                 | (= TA 1000 ??) 8 - 64 KB, 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE COMPUTER                     |
 | 1978 | SYSTEM 5                       | (= TA 20 COMPACT) ACCOUNTING/ OFFICE COMPUTER                              |
 | 1979 | SFE                            | (= TA 22) 16 KB DATA ENTRY SYSTEM (SYSTEM FLOPPY ERFASSUNG)                |
 | 1980 | SYSTEM 7                       | (= TA 1100) MULTI PURPOSE COMPUTER SYSTEM                                  |
 | 1982 | SYSTEM 8/1 8/2 8/3             | (= TA 1600) TI-990 BASED (TMS-9900 PROCESSOR) 16-BIT MULTI USER SYSTEM     |
 | 1984 | SYSTEM 8/D 8/W 8/P             | (= TA 1600) TI-990 BASED (TMS-9900 PROCESSOR) 16-BIT MULTI USER SYSTEM     |
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 | 1980 | SYSTEM 11                      | (= DEC MICRO PDP 11) 16-BIT LSI MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM                        |
 | 1982 | SYSTEM 11/23 11/24 11/44       | (= DEC MICRO PDP 11/23 11/24 11/44) 16-BIT LSI MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM         |
 | 1984 | SYSTEM 11/M1 M2 M3 M4 M5       | (= DEC MICRO PDP 11 ??) 16-BIT LSI MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM                     |
 | 1985 | SYSTEM 11/E1 E3 E5 E7 E9       | (= DEC MICRO PDP 11 ??) 16-BIT LSI MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM                     |
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 | 1981 | SYSTEM 4                       | (SIEMENS ?) 8085A 8 KB ? 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE OFFICE COMPUTER               |
 | 1982 | SYSTEM 4/1 4/2 4/3             | (SIEMENS ?) 8085A 16 - 64 KB 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE OFFICE COMPUTER           |
 | 1983 | SYSTEM 4/S 4/D                 | (SIEMENS ?) 8085A 64 KB 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE OFFICE COMPUTER                |
 | 1984 | SYSTEM 4/CZ 4/W                | (SIEMENS ?) 8085A 64 KB 8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE OFFICE COMPUTER                |
 | 1985 | SYSTEM 4/D 4/CB 4/DW           | (SIEMENS ?) 8085A 128 KB?  8-BIT MULTI PURPOSE OFFICE COMPUTER             |
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 | 1986 | BEG 128D                       | (= COMMODORE C128D)                                                        |
 | 1986 | BC-D (4,5,6,7)                 | (= SIEMENS PCD-2) 512 - 1024 KB                                            |
 | 1987 | BC-DII 20 40                   | (= SIEMENS ?) 512 KB                                                       |
 | 1987 | CC-D/W CC-D/S                  | 1024 KB                                                                    |
 | 1987 | PC XT / PC AT                  |  640 KB                                                                    |
 | 1987 | PS/2 85xy                      | (= SOME IBM PS/2 MODELS)                                                   |
 | 1987 | C-BEG                          | 512 KB                                                                     |
 | 1988 | PCD 2 / 3 xyz                  | (= SOME SIEMENS SINGLE/ MULTI USER MACHINES)                               |
 | 1988 | Txyz0                          | (= SOME TOSHIBA LAPTOPS)                                                   |
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  RATIOMAT DI6    ZEISS-IKON (GOERZ) CALCULATING ACCOUNTING MACHINE  
  510/3           ACCOUNTING COMPUTER TA 10/3  
  KD 1030         CHARACTER PRINTER (UNIT 1)  
  KD 1030         CHARACTER PRINTER (UNIT 2)  
  SYSTEM 4        CP/M OFFICE COMPUTER  
  SYSTEM 4/C      DATA ENTRY TERMINAL  
  SYSTEM 5        ACCOUNTING COMPUTER TA 20 COMPACT  
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  8000/ 8500      ACCOUNTING COMPUTER SYSTEM (GENERAL INFORMATION)  
  510/1 /2 /3     ACCOUNTING COMPUTER (GENERAL INFORMATION)  
  SYSTEM 9        OFFICE COMPUTER SYSTEM (GENERAL INFORMATION)  
  SYSTEM 6        OFFICE COMPUTER (GENERAL INFORMATION)  
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