PARC (Palo Alto, California)

USA / California / Palo Alto / Palo Alto, California / Coyote Hill Road, 3333
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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and co-development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems. Founded in 1970 as a division of Xerox Corporation, PARC has been responsible for such well known and important developments as laser printing, Ethernet, the modern personal computer, graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, ubiquitous computing, amorphous silicon (a-Si) applications, and advancing very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) for semiconductors.

www.parc.com/

PARC continues with great Thursday afternoon presentations. See
www.parc.com/events/calendar.html

Steve Jobs and his Apple team visited in December 1979 and saw the Xerox Alto and was inspired to create the Apple Macintosh, which launched in January 1984.
www-sul.stanford.edu/mac/parc.html

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Coordinates:   37°24'9"N   122°8'54"W

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  • Home of the mouse! Nope, that's not something Apple can claim any credit for whatsoever, despite the fact that some people will go blue telling you they can.
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