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On Oct 7, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember the Lisa! Remember Xerox PARC! ("Founded in 1970 as a > division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well > known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the > modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI), > object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon > (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) > for semiconductors." -- the Wikipedia. And they invented the computer > mouse.) My friend Tony worked on Ethernet at Xerox when PARC was hot. I once commented that Xerox didn't know what it had with it's experimental graphic user interface (icons) and mouse; that Steves Jobs and Wozniak saw the possibilities when they were granted a tour. Tony said "We all knew what we had -- except management." the failure to pursue their vision led to Xerox getting out of the computer biz. Jobs took Xerox's $10,000 behemoth mouse and made it cheap and useable. And don't forget cut copy and paste. BTW, recognizing and appreciating the contributions of a particular person to the toys and tools of humanity does not necessarily make the acknowledger a cultist! It might just be gratitude. Dan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
