Xerox PARC Lab Tour

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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.

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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!!!

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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.

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