The Digital Shift Takes Place

(Tom and Jerry Minor, Sam Kuzamoto and John Miller at 50th Anniversary Celebration) Fax machines made it possible to send documents over phone lines to any other fax machine, which was a huge deal for businesses at the time. Then in 1986, the company got its first computer. It only showed text on the screen, no images, no mouse, but it was the beginning of a whole new era.

Over the next few years, computers switched from text-only screens to graphical ones with icons and windows you could click on. Email became a normal part of work life. Companies like Microsoft and Apple started shaping how offices ran day to day. Color copying also showed up during this time, and though it was expensive at first, it quickly became standard in almost every office. The company kept learning, and helped its customers do the same.