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

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It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Xerox PARC had this aura of being a very far-out place. “Poor Adele,” Tesler said. The rest of us got involved and kept redefining the project.” a spin-off of Lucasfilm.

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