> In the 2017 film The Post, Daniel Ellsberg, portrayed by Matthew Rhys, is seen using a Xerox 914 to copy the Pentagon Papers. This is annoying. What copier m

> In the 2017 film The Post, Daniel Ellsberg, portrayed by Matthew Rhys, is seen using a Xerox 914 to copy the Pentagon Papers. This is annoying. What copier model did the real Ellsberg use? If it was the same model, each full copy of the 7000 page study would have taken him at least 16 hours 39 minutes under perfectly ideal conditions of 7 pages per minute. Ellsberg made at least 18 full copies, and I can't imagine he didn't make at least one for himself, which, again, under perfectly ideal conditions without breaks is 13 full 24 hour days, 4 hours 40 minutes. 133,000 pages of copies spread over the 18 months (~547.5 days) it actually took Ellsberg to make the copies is an average of nearly 243 copies a day, and under perfectly ideal conditions of 7 pages per minute, at an absolute minimum took an average of about 35 minutes every day. I wonder how long it took Snowden to copy 1.7M classified documents. Assuming one page per hardcopy document and only one copy, if he used a Xerox 914, at a bare unattainable ideal minimum, 168 days 15 hours 37 minutes straight, and averaging 243 copies a day, it would have taken him 19 years and two months for each copy.