Xerox PARC Demo for Apple (1979)

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Scientists at Xerox PARC showed in December 1979 a team of from Apple the graphical user interface (GUI)

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[RSBobsta]

Even the french!



[ViperChannel]

Xerox executives must beat themselves over the head over this every morning of their lives.

[Xerox6085I]

-Illustrator which was to draw chemical compounds in a desktop publishing environment. The software package was for Squibb Inc. It used the standard Xerox bit mapped graphics package (Pro Illustrator) in which they built upon it to draw chemical compounds. The project was 9 months late, the project head was holding the software package hostage, so to speak etc. It finally went back for redevelopment just before the huge layoffs everywhere of 1989.

[Xerox6085I]

Today some of those technologies are being used in copiers, duplicators and high speed scanners. The Docutech and "Repro-graphics" the idea of creating a digital document in which images and graphics could be "grabbed" automatically from remote locations via the Xerox network and placed into the document, compiled, printed, redistributed etc. was a huge concept idea in 1989 when I was in DSBU (Documentor Services Business Unit). This was also around the time that Xerox as working on Chem---

[gtb2009b]

Well what they really did was hire the people they met a Xerox that worked on the product they wanted and told them to make it updated enough that it,wasn't the same that way it was all apple. Anyway if he had not gone there it would of been another apple 2 product for the Lisa and mac. They still would of cost too much.

[Anth0nyRey]

Hell why ? XD

[Druffmaul]

Still waiting for someone to post the whole demo, not just the tiny snippets glimpsed in Triumph of the Nerds...

[artefig]

Wrong, the Alto was first (1973). The Star was released much later (1981).

The apple team visited PARC in 1979 so either they were shown an Alto or an early prototype of the Star.

This video is an extract of a documentary called "Triumph of the nerds", this is not what the apple guys were shown during that visit

[Neojhun]

No, that was the Xerox Star which was much earlier. By the time Apple came along Xerox had been using GUI for a few years in daily work and improved on it. Thus why the Demo Xerox made for Apple was capable of Multi Windows and Layering.