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

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Also in 1974, the Product Review Committee at Xerox head­quarters in Rochester, N.Y., 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. “They stripped out all the optics and turned them back to the copier division for credit,” he recalled.

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