Xerox could never make their mind up.
They had their very own Bell Labs division in Palo Alto Research Center, but treated it as a place to exile smart but ?non-copier-oriented people from their HQ in Rochester, like the guy who invented the laser printer¡
PARC invented :
The GUI - and sold the rights to use it to Apple, then dumped their stock holdings in Apple just before the stock split and blew up in the early 80¡¯s?
Laser printing - guy who invented it later went to HP, IIRC, in any case laser printers were commercialized by Canon and HP.
The LAN and 10-Base-t Networking - That turned into a little company called 3-Com.
¡and more I¡¯m probably forgetting about
The real ?wonder is how the heck Xerox still exists as a company. I know where I work we haven¡¯t had any actual Xerox copiers since the late 90¡¯s.?
On Mar 6, 2024, at 8:01 AM, Peter Way <poogleway@...> wrote:
In the 80s when I worked at hp, companies were desperate to keep you from verbing their brands, like Xeroxing.? They wanted to be known for more.? Xerox desperately wanted to get past copiers.? ?Then some companies embraced it, like Googling, Tweeting.? It would seem valuable now for your brand to be the standard item.? ?Nice bunny trail.
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Bruce Johnson
The less a man knows about how sausages and laws are made, the easier it is to steal his vote and give him botulism.
