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'''Xerox''' tried several times to get into the computer business, but never succeeded - but in the process, a research laboratory they set up, [[Xerox PARC]], produced enormous accomplishments which changed computers forever.

Xerox' first move into computers was to buy [[Scientific Data Systems]], makers of the [[SDS Sigma series]] of [[mainframe]]s, in 1969, renaming it Xerox Data Systems. They could never work out how to make a successful business out of it, and sold it off in 1975, losing hundreds of millions of US$.

PARC produced several generations of ground-breaking [[personal computer]]s, starting with the famed [[Xerox Alto]], along with support technologies such as [[Ethernet]] and [[laser printer]]s.

Xerox attempted to turn that research into a product, the [[Xerox Star]] line of [[workstation]]s, but again could not make a success out of it.

Other computers: [[Xerox 500 series]], [[Xerox NoteTaker]], [[Xerox 820]], [[Xerox 820-II]], [[Xerox Daybreak]] aka [[Xerox 6805 PCS]] aka [[Xerox 1186]].

Other companies, such as [[Apple]], [[Microsoft]], etc went on to turn the PARC research into products that forever changed computers.

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==External links==

* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/ Xerox] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]
** [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/8010_dandelion/OSD-R8203A_Xerox_Office_System_Technology_Jan1984.pdf Office Systems Technology - A Look into the World of the Xerox 8000 Series Products: Workstations, Services, Ethernet, and Software Development]
* [https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection/xerox-sigma-9-mainframe-computer-system-119/230056 Xerox Sigma 9 mainframe computer system] - from [[Paul Allen]]'s collection at the [[Living Computer Museum|LCM]], includes several images

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