Never heard of Haloid ? Yeah, founded in Rochester NY in 1906 in the shadow of another photographic company, they later changed their name...to Xerox. Their PARC labs in California invented it all: the idea of a gui, the mouse, pretty much everything about the way we interface, the 820 Bigboard Z80 8 bit computer which was the basis for most CP/M computers including the Kaypro. No matter what they came up with, the big boys back in Rochester ignored them, we make buggy whips and all that tinkering with combustion engines was smelly and noisy nonsense. None of it was ever allowed to become commercial products. Visitors to Palo Alto had other reactions to what they saw there, including some guys named Jobs and Gates...
Today it effectively ceases to exist as it is absorbed into a Fuijifilm 'joint venture' which they will completely control. Sic transit gloria mundi
Today it effectively ceases to exist as it is absorbed into a Fuijifilm 'joint venture' which they will completely control. Sic transit gloria mundi
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