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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The first version of Smalltalk was written as the result of a chance conversation between Kay, Ingalls, and Ted Kaehler, another PARC researcher. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Xerox could not afford to have people think they were flakes.”

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