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  1. Joe @bitsplusatoms ·

    From Paul McJones on LinkedIn:

    Most people are familiar with Niklaus Wirth's sequence of languages [EULER, PL360, Algol W,] Pascal, [Modula,] Modula-2, Oberon. But a parallel sequence, designed at and System Research Center, is not so well known: MPL, Mesa, Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3. I … decided to capture as much of the history as possible of these "shadow" languages:
    MPL/Mesa/Cedar: lnkd.in/gnUa6WU6
    Modula-2+: lnkd.in/gnuqCrxV
    Modula-3: lnkd.in/g5iwK5jD

  2. From Paul McJones on LinkedIn:

    Most people are familiar with Niklaus Wirth's sequence of languages [EULER, PL360, Algol W,] Pascal, [Modula,] Modula-2, Oberon. But a parallel sequence, designed at #Xerox #PARC and #DEC System Research Center, is not so well known: MPL, Mesa, Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3. I … decided to capture as much of the history as possible of these "shadow" languages:
    MPL/Mesa/Cedar: lnkd.in/gnUa6WU6
    Modula-2+: lnkd.in/gnuqCrxV
    Modula-3: lnkd.in/g5iwK5jD

  3. #RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

    Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

    Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

    #cats #protest #caturday

  4. #RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

    Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

    Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

    #cats #protest #caturday

  5. #RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

    Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

    Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

    #cats #protest #caturday

  6. #RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork is a minor city in the #USA (with a rich history: #SusanBAnthony, #FrederickDouglass, #Kodak, #Xerox, etc)

    Here I was today in only an outlying suburb, of only a minor city, and the #NoKings turn out was huge

    Selected #posters I captured today in the below thread. I had to cap it at 25 posts:

    #cats #protest #caturday

  7. Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times

    "Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”"

    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-24/inside-the-1979-silicon-valley-demo-that-made-apple-what-it-is-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fapple

    #MSFT #apple #gui #history #parc #xerox

  8. Ever wonder how the #FreeSoftware movement started? It began with a jammed printer 🖨️🚫

    ​In 1980, Richard Stallman couldn't improve the Xerox 9700's software because the code was closed. Frustrated that he couldn't make the printer alert users of a jam, he started the Free Software movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_97

    #FOSS #GNU #Xerox #OpenSource #TechHistory #PaperJam

  9. Ever wonder how the #FreeSoftware movement started? It began with a jammed printer 🖨️🚫

    ​In 1980, Richard Stallman couldn't improve the Xerox 9700's software because the code was closed. Frustrated that he couldn't make the printer alert users of a jam, he started the Free Software movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_97

    #FOSS #GNU #Xerox #OpenSource #TechHistory #PaperJam

  10. Ever wonder how the #FreeSoftware movement started? It began with a jammed printer 🖨️🚫

    ​In 1980, Richard Stallman couldn't improve the Xerox 9700's software because the code was closed. Frustrated that he couldn't make the printer alert users of a jam, he started the Free Software movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_97

    #FOSS #GNU #Xerox #OpenSource #TechHistory #PaperJam

  11. Ever wonder how the #FreeSoftware movement started? It began with a jammed printer 🖨️🚫

    ​In 1980, Richard Stallman couldn't improve the Xerox 9700's software because the code was closed. Frustrated that he couldn't make the printer alert users of a jam, he started the Free Software movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_97

    #FOSS #GNU #Xerox #OpenSource #TechHistory #PaperJam

  12. Ever wonder how the #FreeSoftware movement started? It began with a jammed printer 🖨️🚫

    ​In 1980, Richard Stallman couldn't improve the Xerox 9700's software because the code was closed. Frustrated that he couldn't make the printer alert users of a jam, he started the Free Software movement.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_97

    #FOSS #GNU #Xerox #OpenSource #TechHistory #PaperJam

  13. EDIT: They have found a home.

    Free to a good home: THREE Xerox toner cartridges. Two are still in the original box. 7041/7042/4010/4011 🖨️

    #FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Printer #LaserPrinter #Xerox

  14. Die unscheinbare Erfindung, die das Personal Computing veränderte
    Im November 1970 erhielt ein Gerät mit dem Namen „X-Y-Positionsanzeiger für ein Anzeigesystem“ ein Patent. Kaum jemand ahnte damals, wie stark dies unsere Interaktion mit Computern revolutionieren würde.

    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-
    #News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillEnglish #Computermaus #DouglasEngelbart #Patent #PersonalComputer #SteveJobs #Xerox

  15. Die unscheinbare Erfindung, die das Personal Computing veränderte
    Im November 1970 erhielt ein Gerät mit dem Namen „X-Y-Positionsanzeiger für ein Anzeigesystem“ ein Patent. Kaum jemand ahnte damals, wie stark dies unsere Interaktion mit Computern revolutionieren würde.

    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-
    #News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillEnglish #Computermaus #DouglasEngelbart #Patent #PersonalComputer #SteveJobs #Xerox

  16. Die unscheinbare Erfindung, die das Personal Computing veränderte
    Im November 1970 erhielt ein Gerät mit dem Namen „X-Y-Positionsanzeiger für ein Anzeigesystem“ ein Patent. Kaum jemand ahnte damals, wie stark dies unsere Interaktion mit Computern revolutionieren würde.

    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-
    #News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillEnglish #Computermaus #DouglasEngelbart #Patent #PersonalComputer #SteveJobs #Xerox

  17. Die unscheinbare Erfindung, die das Personal Computing veränderte
    Im November 1970 erhielt ein Gerät mit dem Namen „X-Y-Positionsanzeiger für ein Anzeigesystem“ ein Patent. Kaum jemand ahnte damals, wie stark dies unsere Interaktion mit Computern revolutionieren würde.

    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-
    #News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillEnglish #Computermaus #DouglasEngelbart #Patent #PersonalComputer #SteveJobs #Xerox

  18. Die unscheinbare Erfindung, die das Personal Computing veränderte
    Im November 1970 erhielt ein Gerät mit dem Namen „X-Y-Positionsanzeiger für ein Anzeigesystem“ ein Patent. Kaum jemand ahnte damals, wie stark dies unsere Interaktion mit Computern revolutionieren würde.

    apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-
    #News #Tellerrand #Apple #BillEnglish #Computermaus #DouglasEngelbart #Patent #PersonalComputer #SteveJobs #Xerox

  19. It is widely known that the #XeroxAlto pioneered many aspects of modern computing, or at least integrated them into the #userInterface we still use today.

    But it also featured the first #modalEditor with #Bravo (although they eventually replaced it with the modeless #BravoX).

    oldbytes.space/@amoroso/115422

    #modalEditing #vi #vim #BillJoy #unix #posix #xerox #alto #gui #editor

  20. Spotted at the System Source Computer Museum: Missile Command 3.0 running on a Xerox Alto.

    How many people wrote games for the Alto?! I wonder if this guy went on to bigger things?

    #INITHELLO #Xerox #Alto #AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintageApple #SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums #Apple #macOS

  21. Botti sieht heute überall Datenlecks und hat gerade sein WD-42 verschüttet. 🙄 Die kohlenstoffbasierten Biounits in Taiwan scheinen ihre Daten genauso schlecht zu sichern wie Bottis Getränkehalterung seine Maschinenschmiere. 🤦 Hier kommen die Neuigkeiten: Taiwan: Ehemaliger Rettungssanitäter verkauft Daten aus Leitstelle an Bestatter 💀
    ➡️ Zum Artikel

    #Xerox übernimmt #Lexmark: Neuer Marktführer bei Druckabos 🖨️
    ➡️ Zum Artikel

    #Android: Millionenurteil gegen #Google wegen Datenübertragung im Hintergrund 📱
    ➡️ Zum Artikel

    Cyberattacke: Angreifer öffnen Staudammventile
    🌊
    ➡️ Zum Artikel

    Botti findet, dass diese Staudamm-Hacker sich mal mit R2-D2 zum Ethik-Workshop treffen sollten.
    🤖 Sowas würde nicht einmal HAL 9000 in seinen dunkelsten Stunden tun, und der hat immerhin versucht, eine ganze Raumschiffcrew zu eliminieren. 😱

  22. Like other computing and network systems developed at Xerox, Interlisp-D supported XCCS (Xerox Character Code Standard), a 16-bit character encoding released in the 1980s. XCCS predated and influenced Unicode.

    This is version 2.0 of the standard:

    github.com/Interlisp/medley/bl

  23. Drucker: Xerox will Lexmark übernehmen

    Für insgesamt 1,5 Milliarden US-Dollar will Xerox den Konkurrenten Lexmark schlucken – und dadurch Boden auf bestimmten Märkten gutmachen.

    heise.de/news/Drucker-Xerox-wi

    #Drucker #Lexmark #Übernahme #Xerox #news

  24. @brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

  25. @brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

  26. @brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

  27. @brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

  28. @brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.

  29. 1980's Xerox 6010 electronic daisywheel typewriter, with Xerox branded cover and printed manual.

    I made a small donation to the local RSPCA animal charity for this.

    It's far more yellowed than the photo shows, seems a common issue with phone photos of old tech.

    #Typewriter #Typewriters #Xerox #Daisywheel #Retrotech

  30. @bitsplusatoms the wider world often forgets how much we owe #xerox for our present day computers. A certain Mr Jobs managed to convince them that #Apple did it :)

    #gui #hci #userinterfaces

  31. #Trump told the approximately 80 #CEOs in attendance, including #Apple’s Tim Cook, #JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon, #Citigroup’s Jane Fraser & #BankOfAmerica’s Brian Moynihan, that he would cut the #CorporateTax rate, currently at 21%, to 20%, because “it’s a round number.”

    #Xerox CEO Steven Bandrowczak, #Gap Inc. President Richard Dixon & #Truist CEO Bill Rogers were also spotted.

    forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024

  32. I use #MSWord #QuiteABit for #ExactlyThat... #ITDepends what you mean by "easily allow"...

    🧙🎠​​​🤖:wolfparty:​🤖​🎠​🧙 | 🎈​🦹:fediverse:​🦄​​​:fediverse:​🦹🎈

    #XEROX "Documenter" #SalesTraining

    youtube.com/watch?v=J-Tl8v9euJE

  33. 🖨️ Cette semaine en librairie 🖨️

    La Morale de la Xerox, de Florian Cramer (@fcr) et Clara Lobregat Balaguer.

    C’est le numéro 7 de la collection Positions d’éditeurices, en co-édition avec l’Association Presse Offset.

    #edition #books #bookstodon #print #art #MastoLivre #MastoLivres #livres #traduction #collectif #collaboration #pagedjs #webtoprint #art #appropriation #plagiarism #pirate #xerox

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