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Apple and Xerox PARC – Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center?

Apple and Xerox PARC – Did Steve Jobs steal everything from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center?

| March 22, 2012 | 6 Comments

It is claimed again and again that in the course of the Macintosh’s development, Apple just resorted to the ideas the research laboratory Xerox PARC had hatched before. Fact or Fiction?

The myth entwines about a late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs.

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Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa

| October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Apple Lisa was a personal computer designed at Apple Computer, Inc. during the early 1980s. Officially, “Lisa” stood for “Local Integrated Software Architecture”, but it was also the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ daughter. The Lisa project was started at Apple in 1978 and evolved into a project to design a powerful personal [...]

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