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

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When I asked him how he got one, he told me that he went around to the various laboratories, collected parts that people owed him, and put it together himself.” It was based in part on the Alohanet, a packet radio network developed at the University of Hawaii in the late 1960s. It was the first portable computer run in an air­port.

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