Actually, upon closer investigation, I have been at my current employer since before you were born.
I never hear of any copier with a water bath, although I have seen copiers underwater in floods a couple times. I had one get hit by a car once also.
I started at Apeco in 1967. Worked on the Dial-a-Flame (Dial-a-Copy), the Super-Jam (Super-Stat), and the Ultra-Jam. I even worked on a few of the old diffusion transfer process machines. I actually used to have a customer who made diazo copies using a sun frame (took a while on a cloudy day
).
Worked at Saxon for a couple years. Worked on Canon's when they first came out (the old grease buckets, then their first dry machines). Left before monocomponent.
Probably the best hardware I ever worked on were the Sharp's in the late 80's to late 90's (9750, 9800, 2060, 2260, 3062, etc).