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

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). PARC’s job is to develop the ideas on which we can produce a product scenario.” — John Ellenby , 1974-80, now president of Grid Systems Corp. and Toronto, Ont., Palo Alto, Calif.,

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