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 ...

But it wasn’t until April 27, 1981 that the mouse was introduced commercially as part of the innovative, yet very expensive, Xerox 8010 Star Information System. The Xerox Star workstation was a ...

Computers: The smart system was ahead of its time in 1981 ... Xerox did put PARC’s technology into a product, the Xerox Star, introduced in 1981. The Star was a gorgeous machine, integrating ...

When Jobs saw the advanced graphics of the Alto and the Star, he was inspired to base the user interfaces of his Lisa and Macintosh systems on Xerox's ideas and bring GUI to the mass market.

As an Energy Star Charter Partner since the early 1990s, Xerox has been building energy savings into its products for several years. For example, its WorkCentre 4150, black-and-white desktop ...

For an innovation meant to make it easier to use a computer, its name was surprisingly unwieldy: “X-Y position indicator for a display system.” The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that ...

Also dubbed the Xerox Star, it was like nothing anyone had ever ... freed of keying text into a command line. For printing, the system was a game-changer. This was… Receive a weekly dose of ...

The Xerox Star Personal Computer Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) created the first GUI in 1981. So why didn’t Xerox’s first GUI system take the world by storm, as Apple’s ...

Its answer to the problem was the Xerox Star, a system that was far ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was much too expensive for a product that did little more than automate secretarial work.

The Xerox Star was priced more like a copier ... It won some high-profile contracts — like operating the computer and payment systems behind E-ZPass highway tolls. Yet none of its efforts ...

The computer was the Xerox Star, also known as the 8010 Information System. It cost $16,500 with software, the equivalent of $48,000 today. (Although, really, the cost was more, since you needed ...