When Photocopiers Terrified the Publishing World https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/cp/135501322

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When Photocopiers Terrified the Publishing World

“What Hath Xerox Wrought” asked a 1976 Time Magazine headline, the proceeding article prompted readers to imagine if: “some inventive and omnipotent god offered the nation a device that would greatly advance the spread of information.” There was a...

50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World - IEEE Spectrum

I’m sitting in front of a computer, looking at its graphical user interface with overlapping windows on a high-resolution screen. I interact with the computer by pointing and clicking with a mouse and typing on a keyboard. I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. This computer runs other software, written using object-oriented programming, just like the popular programming languages Python, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and R. Its networking capabilities can link me to other computers and to high-quality laser printers.

You are probably thinking, “So what? My computer has all that too.” But the computer in front of me is not today’s MacBook, ThinkPad, or Surface computer.

A black-and-white vertical display on a desk above a keyboard and mouseAn Alto computer displays a sketch of its own mouse.
PARC, a Xerox company

Rather, it’s half-century-old hardware running software of the same vintage, meticulously restored and in operation at the Computer History Museum’s archive center. Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it’s sometimes difficult to appreciate just how extraordinary, how different it was when it first appeared.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World - IEEE Spectrum

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.

Cofundador da #Ethernet, David Boggs morre aos 71 anos -
https://olhardigital.com.br/2022/03/01/reviews/cofundador-da-ethernet-david-boggs-morre-aos-71-anos/ -
Via Olhar Digital - Rodrigues Leonardo - #DavidBoggs #Informática #História #Xerox -
. "...David Boggs, pesquisador pioneiro de computadores da Xerox PARC, mais conhecido por ter coinventado o padrão de conexão Ethernet PC, usado para conectar PCs próximos a outros computadores, impressoras e à Internet – por meio de conexões com e sem fio..." -

Cofundador da Ethernet, David Boggs morre aos 71 anos

David Boggs foi um pesquisador pioneiro de computadores da Xerox PARC, mais conhecido por ter coinventado o padrão de conexão Ethernet

● NEWS ● #NeoSmart #ProprietarySoftware ☞ CVE-2022-23968: #Xerox vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to remotely brick network printers https://neosmart.net/blog/2022/xerox-vulnerability-allows-unauthenticated-network-users-to-remotely-brick-printers/

CVE-2022-23968: Xerox vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to remotely brick network printers (UPDATED)

In the world of network security, it pays to always remember that many (if not most!) security bugs start off their lives as seemingly innocuous “regular” bugs, and it’s only by d…

"Paul Strassmann, the former CIO of #Xerox , #NASA , and the #DOD , highlighted an interesting analog between agricultural monocultures and software #monocultures (monopolies), specifically Microsoft’s" http://techrights.org/2021/10/29/microsoft-national-security-threat/

Microsoft: Still a National Security Threat

Guest article by Mitchel Lewis

After #Xerox abandoned support for it, #GutenPrint has allowed me to continue using my ancient printer for years to come. #Huzzah!

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Hat jemand Interesse an diesem Xerox CopyCentre C123? Der Kopierer ist laut Spenderin noch funktionstüchtig, muss aber in Gutach im Breisgau innerhalb von einer Woche abgeholt werden.

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