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Dear,

As far as my memory is correct we recieved the first commercial MRC500  
confocal in Europe. Feb 1988. At that time some prototypes of Leica  
were also displayed in EMBL. The EMBL system even had no possibility  
to use conventional object observation and hence you needed a rather  
blind imaging. Quite difficult if you have to look and search your  
object with alone confocal illumination and slowscanning.
Andrew Dixon, was than the most important person at BIORAD, probably  
he has some  exact dates.

As they told me the MRC500 was presented to the public in dec 1987 at  
the american cell biology meeting.
Am I correct?

Patrick

Quoting "Wiegraebe, Winfried" <[log in to unmask]>:

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> How do the Zeiss laser scanning and confocal microscopes fit into this
> history?
> According to their web-page they had 1982 the first commercial laser
> scanning microscope (not confocal), the LSM 44 and 1988 a confocal
> system (the LSM 10).
> Winfried
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