the.com/xerox equipment
the machine that made copying a verb, then got its name stolen by every rival.
means photocopiers and printers made by xerox, the company that turned dry electrostatic copying into an office religion.
from grew out of chester carlson's 1938 invention of electrophotography, licensed by the haloid company in 1947, which renamed itself xerox after the greek xeros, meaning dry, to describe copying without ink or chemicals.
name originxeros is greek for dry
first modelthe 914 weighed 650 pounds
parc spinoffinvented the mouse, gui, ethernet
generic trapxerox became a verb, company hated it
for instance
xerox 914 — 1959 launch, first plain-paper copier, made carlson a millionaire
xerox parc — palo alto lab that birthed modern computing, 1970s
xerox alto — 1973 prototype pc that inspired the apple macintosh