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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 executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. “Poor Adele,” Tesler said. It was the first portable computer run in an air­port.

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