Xerox company history part IV.

After years of record profits in 1975, Xerox settled anti-trust suit with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was at that time, under the leadership of Frederic M. Scherer. Xerox consent decree resulted in the granting of compulsory licenses for the patent portfolio, particularly Japanese competitors. Within four years of the consent decree, Xerox's market share decreased from U.S. Copier almost 100% to less than 14%.

In 1970, the company president Charles Peter McColough Xerox opened the Xerox PARC (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) research facility. Equipment has a range of modern computer technology, as developed by the mouse and graphical user interface (GUI). Of these inventions, Xerox PARC created the Xerox Alto in 1973, a small minicomputer similar to a modern workstation or personal computer. This machine can be used as the first true personal computer, through its universal combination of cathode-ray tubes for Type screen, mouse-type pointing device, a QWERTY alphanumeric keypad. But seeing as the Xerox Alto was never commercially could not be sold, the sales potential of it. However, it was installed, see the Xerox's own offices all over the world and the U.S. government and military, who could potential.


On these pages of our stations are connected Xerox 's own LAN' Ethernet '. The data were on the whole system, heavy, yellow, low loss coaxial cable sent with "packets " system. Soon Xerox's engineers worked out how to connect individual sites combined, along with the use of a system called ' Inter-channel '.

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