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The purple ink "ditto" machines were spirit duplicators, not photocopiers. The moniker refers to the Ditto Corporation, which was a manufacturer of the equipment.
My father worked at PARC in the early eighties, after it's heyday, but I still I wish I'd been old enough to appreciate it then.
Thsts awesome1!!!!
PARC started the GUI interface for computers and could have owned the industry....
This lab had some some really cool stuff in the past!!!
I grew up in Palo Alto (Ohlone, Wilbur, PAHS) and I had the unique privilege of participating in an experiment at PARC. It was a blast. We were test subjects in a rapid training prototype designed to fast-track copier service technicians. To this day, much of what I learned over 20 years ago has stayed with me.
It also inspired me. A few years later I was working at HP's R&D lab as a security guard. Then, after my time in the Army, I went back to school at to pursue a BSEE. The people I met at PARC and HP are so amazing, I only wish I'd had the presence of mind to improve my GPA by a few tenths and to go to a really good school instead of settling for okay schools that did not propel me into a really interesting and competitive jobs.
Tscuss!
P.s. I wonder if I've ever met Dawson5. I graduated from Paly in 1983.