The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective Jeff Johnson and Teresa L. Roberts, U S WEST Advanced Technologies William Verplank, IDTwo David C. Smith, Cognition, Inc. Charles Irby and Marian Beard, Metaphor ...

Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, ...

The workstation from Xerox that introduced the graphical user interface and desktop metaphor in 1981. The Star was designed to work in an Ethernet network connected to other workstations along with a ...

We mentioned in an earlier “Today in Media History” that computer mouse technology can be traced back to the 1960s. But it wasn’t until April 27, 1981 that the mouse was introduced commercially as ...

Few mistakes in the technological world are as deadly as the decision to lead the way with a brilliant product. That lesson is the big take-away from Xerox Corp's milestone, the 8010 workstation, ...

When Xerox introduced its popular copying machines in 1959, their wizardry was considered as high tech as the iPhone when Steve Jobs presented it to the world almost 50 years later. But just as Xerox ...

It is 1980-something and you see someone typing on a keyboard. The display is graphical, and they use a mouse to finish a document, send it over the network to another similar computer, where another ...