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From: Dag Spicer <spicer@tcm.org>
To: chc@tcm.org <chc@tcm.org>
Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 1:02 PM
Subject: LECTURE: "The Xerox Star Runs One More Time."
>
> Bay Area Computer History Perspectives
> and
> The Computer Museum History Center
> present
>
> "The Xerox Star runs one more time"
>
>
> 5:30 PM, Wednesday, June 17
> Auditorium
> Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
> 3333 Coyote Hill Road
> Palo Alto
>
> David Curbow David Liddle David Smith
> Sun Microsystems Interval Research Stagecraft Software
>
> Robert Belleville Robert Garner
> Clockmaker Sun Microsystems
>
>
>Seventeen years ago, the computer interface technology we take for
>granted today was new and strange, difficult even to describe. These
>quotes from a 1981 Xerox Star brochure show how people were fumbling for
>words to describe the new computer desktop technology:
>
> "Objects displayed on the Xerox 8010 screen are freely movable using the
> hand-held pointer, or 'mouse' ... this unique digital pointer ... will
> also initiate sequences for the relocation, copying, and deletion of
> material, and the retrieval and transmission of documents."
>
> "The iconographic symbols ... bear labels which identify them as folders,
> in- and out-baskets, file drawers, and other accessories comprising
> what amounts to an 'electronic desk top'."
>
> "Abstractly speaking, the spreadsheet expresses variable dependencies
> over time. It is basically an electronic matrix with a full menu of
> matrix manipulation tools."
>
>Mice, folders, and spreadsheets were all new and strange to the
>marketplace. Even who exactly was going to use the computer wasn't
>always clear.
>
>This talk will feature a Star running, with commentary. The display
>will be shown on a wide video screen for the entire audience. Eleven
>other Stars behind the scenes are being used for parts to keep this one
>machine running, and this could be the last occasion ever to see a Star
>run.
>
>David Liddle directed the Star development effort, and will provide an
>overview. David Curbow and David Smith will do a demonstration of the
>user interface, and then Robert Belleville and Robert Garner will
>discuss the Star hardware---which was also innovative.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>These talks are sponsored by The Computer Museum History Center and Sun
>Microsystems.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Directions to Xerox PARC in Palo Alto:
>
> From Highway 101---take the Oregon Expressway exit west 2 miles to El
> Camino Real. Oregon Expressway becomes Page Mill Road at El Camino
> Real. Follow Page Mill Road another 1.7 miles to Coyote Hill Road (no
> light), just past Foothill Expwy, and turn left. Proceed 1/2 mile up
> Coyote Hill Road, over the top of the hill, to PARC. Follow the signs
> to the auditorium.
>
> From Highway 280---take the Page Mill Road exit. Go east one mile on
> Page Mill, and then turn right on Coyote Hill Road (no light). Proceed
> 1/2 mile on Coyote Hill Road, over the top of the hill, and PARC will
> be on your left. Follow the signs to the auditorium.
>
>--
>Dag Spicer
>Manager, Historical Collections
>The Computer Museum History Center
>Moffett Federal Airfield
>Mountain View, CA 94035
>
>Offices: Building T12-A
>Exhibit Area: Building 126
>
>Tel: +1 650 604 2578
>Fax: +1 650 604 2594
>E-m: spicer@tcm.org
>WWW: http://www.tcm.org/history/
>
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>--
>Dag Spicer
>Manager, Historical Collections
>The Computer Museum History Center
>Moffett Federal Airfield
>Mountain View, CA 94035
>
>Offices: Building T12-A
>Exhibit Area: Building 126
>
>Tel: +1 650 604 2578
>Fax: +1 650 604 2594
>E-m: spicer@tcm.org
>WWW: http://www.tcm.org/history/
>
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