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Xerox only realized its mistake in the early 1980s, after the Macintosh revolutionized the PC market via its bitmap display and the mouse-centered interface. Both of these were inspired by the Alto. [25] The Xerox Star series was a relative commercial success, but it came too late.
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [12] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [13] and dry powder "toner".
Xerography is a dry photocopying technique. [1] Originally called electrophotography, it was renamed xerography—from the Greek roots ξηρός xeros, meaning "dry" and -γραφία-graphia, meaning "writing"—to emphasize that unlike reproduction techniques then in use such as cyanotype, the process of xerography used no liquid chemicals.
Salem State University (Salem State or SSU) is a public university in Salem, Massachusetts.Established in 1854, it is the oldest and largest institute of higher education on the North Shore and is part of the state university system in Massachusetts.