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

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began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. It looked like a book, and Addison-Wesley agreed to publish it as a book.

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