There's no controversy about who invented the mouse. It was Doug Englebart, in the early 60's. I saw one on his desk in 1968. PARC was founded in 1970.
There's also no controversy about PARC inventing the inkjet printer; they didn't. It may have been Canon, it may have been HP, but it was not PARC. You may have been thinking of the laser printer, but they didn't invent that either. There were prototypes running at the Xerox lab in NY before PARC was founded.
PC? Nope.
Ethernet? Yes, definitely.
You packed a stunning amount of misinformation into a short introduction.
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BobMunck2nd May 2008 -
RE: What's cooking at Xerox's PARC labs?
Maybe you?re right Munck, but you forgot to notice that they invented the machine that was copied in order for Apple to build the Lisa...
Without that we would not have iPhones, the iPod, McIntoshes, today, for Apple would have been gone in a few years...
scoobbs@...9th May 2008
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