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2. Xerox Alto - Wikipedia

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   The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers , and its development pioneered many aspects of modern computing.

3. Word processor (electronic device) - Wikipedia

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   The mid-to-late 1980s saw the spread of laser printers, a "typographic" approach to word processing, and of true WYSIWYG bitmap displays with multiple fonts (pioneered by the Xerox Alto computer and Bravo word processing program), PostScript, and graphical user interfaces (another Xerox PARC innovation, with the Gypsy word processor which was ...

4. Bravo (editor) - Wikipedia

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   The 72 PPI pixel size closely approximated the 72.27 points per inch used in the commercial printing industry, so that a pixel in Bravo would be the same size as a typeface point. Bravo was the base for Gypsy , a later document system on the Alto, the first with a modern graphical user interface .

5. DocuTech - Wikipedia

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   The controller and scanner were common to both models, but the Model 90 used a different print engine based on one developed for the previously announced Xerox 4090 printer. The original DocuTech Production Publisher was capable of scanning and then printing black-and-white pages at up to 135 pages per minutes (for letter or A4 sizes) with an ...

6. PARC (company) - Wikipedia

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   PARC entrance. SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems.

7. Xerox 914 - Wikipedia

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   The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier. Introduced in 1959 by the Haloid/Xerox company, it revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson 's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical.

8. Xerox - Wikipedia

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   Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [11] 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 [12] and dry powder "toner".

9. Gypsy (software) - Wikipedia

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   It was the second WYSIWYG document preparation program, a successor to the Bravo on the Xerox Alto personal computer. It was designed and implemented at Xerox PARC in 1975 by Larry Tesler and Timothy Mott, with advice from Dan Swinehart and other colleagues.