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[post_page_title]Xerox gives Apple the cow for free[/post_page_title]

In the early 1970s, Xerox was working on a personal computer, the Alto, which was the first machine to use a dedicated graphical user interface and mouse.

Xerox gives Apple the cow for free

Then, in 1979, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs arranged a visit to Xerox’s research facility, where he took in the Alto computer’s revolutionary features… and promptly took them for Apple’s own personal computers, first the Lisa and then the Macintosh, known today as the Mac, which became a runaway success. Xerox eventually launched its own computer, but there was nothing innovative about it anymore.

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