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

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. 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.” Pake, a longtime friend, to run it.

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