phenomenal tool. steve jobs thought that a computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. is there anything you d like to see? we d love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but that s technically impossible. steve s like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto, california. flowers, my anniversary. i forgot. xerox in the 1 t980s was onef the most exciting companies in america. they had a booming business. it wasn t a computer o company. but it was the palo alto research center.
we would love to have it in a book right now about this size but that s technically impossible. steve s like i want to make a friendly computer. a computer that comes from a different kind of place. that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. this is an experimental office system at the xerox research center in palo alto, california. what flowers? my anniversary. i forgot. xerox in the 1980s was one of the most exciting companies in america. xerox had this booming copier business. it wasn t a personal computer company but they opened up this lab called the palo alto research center. xerox park was xerox s think tank. they were working on all these crazy out there ideas which included the mouse and overlapping windows and fonts and graphics on the computer screen. just to see if they could do it.