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Where Your PC Really Came From

posted by 8266 2 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 3446 views

tags: PC, Computer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Geek, xerox, parc

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Great post, but it's not vintage.

written by MarineGunrock

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where is the rest!

written by def

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everyone should watch this video...even the French!

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*nochannel *geek *history *documentaries

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Wow. I had heard bits of this, but Xerox really dropped the ball.

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An important bit of History.

written by 8266 | 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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Just goes to show the importance of having young people up in higher management, or at least listened to.
Pretty awesome stuff, just imagine how much further we'd be if Jobs had also thought of stealing Ethernet and email.

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Great post. I really love computer and video game history.

written by budzos

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Where did this post come from? I'd really like to see the entire thing.

written by budzos

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I remember the bit where Adele Goldberg refused to give the demonstration because it would give away Xerox PARC's work to someone else.

written by Spoon_Gouge | 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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It's from a PBS-series (in three parts) called "Triumph of the Nerds".. It's a great series, and well worth watching!

written by arnor | 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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The movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" also touched briefly on this...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Pirates-of-Silicon-Valley1999

written by Roofles | 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago | CH

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More accurately this could be called "Where your OS really came from."

It's a shame, really. You have to wonder where we'd be now if Xerox upper management had their priorities in order. PARC was 10-20 years ahead of the times depending on which technology you look at; Ethernet LAN, WYSIWYG, WIMP GUI, laser printers, InterPress and OOP; and Xerox abandoned the project because they were afraid computers would destroy the paper business.

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Don't you just love management

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What?! No Xerox tag? These guys can't win.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'PC, Computer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Geek' to 'PC, Computer, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Geek, xerox, parc' - edited by dag

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*dead

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Awarding rasch187 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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