Everybody else knows them from their photocopiers, but computer people are just as likely to think of Xerox PARC, founded in 1970, and still in operation. There, the mouse, the GUI, client/server architecture, laser printing and the Ethernet/ LAN were all born. In a company with executives totally focused on paper and business machines, it took young outsiders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to visit PARC and take away the ideas for their own companies: Apple and Microsoft. Xerox did try. Their D series computers pre-empted the PC s of the 1980s by a decade. And a Xerox word processor had a paper shaped monitor that displayed an entire page at once, but no one would pay more the $10,000 per station for it. Today, few remember Xerox was ever in the computer field at all.

A leader in the global document market, providing document solutions that enhance business productivity. The company's document processing activities encompass developing, manufacturing, marketing, servicing and financing a complete range of document processing products and solutions designed to make organisations around the world more productive. In the 1970s Xerox developed devices such as the mouse and graphical user interface technology that was later adopted by Apple for use in early home computers.

1. v. to photocopy; 2. v. to appopriate someone else's work, as in "I just xeroxed Craig's problem set because I was too drunk from beer pong and I didn't want to get a zero". 3. n the document processing company. originally named the Halide Corporation, renamed for their most popular product. See PARC.

Copy. To reproduce as a stencil.

a copy made by the xerox process

duplicator that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder

The easiest and quickest way to go from a monotheistic religion to a polytheistic one. Though it may cost you ten cents.