Xerox Star

I'm like a Xerox machine.

I gotta xerox that New York Times article.

The difference between Xerox PARC and Apple Computer is that Apple could ship, otherwise Xerox PARC would be Apple today.

Xerox invented the modern personal computer in the early seventies

This is a picture of an Alto from Xerox PARC.

Part 4 What if Xerox never decided to pursue the graphical interface?

The Xerox Star used a desktop metaphor with icons for documents and folders

It was the origin of the Xerox copier, which celebrated its 50th anniversary

Arguably Xerox PARC had many of the concepts for Macintosh, figured out before Macintosh.

Now, back in the '80s, there were no software patents, and it was Xerox that pioneered the graphical user interface.

Would a young and inexperienced Apple have survived the legal assault from a much larger and more mature company like Xerox?

So let's travel back to the dawn of the personal computer revolution and look at the company that started it all Xerox

Cassette tapes, video cassette recorders, even the humble Xerox machine created new opportunities for us to behave in ways that astonished the media business.

And actually this the video you're watching was written just before the New Yorker published a Malcolm Gladwell story about Apple, Xerox and the nature of innovation

The cybertopians say, much like fax machines and Xerox machines did in the '80s, blogs and social networks have radically transformed the economics of protest, so people would inevitably rebel.

The Alto was never a commercial product but Xerox did release a system based on it in 1981 the Star 8010 two years before The Lisa three years before the Mac

Truth about that one is I had a horrible red wine hangover, in the middle of the night, this came to me like a Xerox all I had to do was write it down.