Trillium was a user interface design environment for simulating and experimenting with interfaces for simple machines. Developed at Xerox PARC in Interlisp-D, Trillium was used also for fast prototyping and testing of interfaces for Xerox copiers and printers.
An overview of Trillium:
Using the mouse-driven graphical user interface of a personal computer to write a document with a WYSIWYG word processor, check new messages with an email client, and create an organization chart with a drawing program. Just an ordinary day at Xerox PARC in 1978. When email spam was apparently already a thing.
The demo features the Alto workstation and the Bravo word processor. You can hear the noise of the hard disk.
https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Palo_Alto_Demo_August_1978
@0x2ba22e11 @uastronomer ad now you know why I only deploy #Xerox cuz they at least give a shit and provide #PostScript support, drivers from MS-DOS & OS/2 to Linux and from A/UX to Solaris and worst-case support print from & scan to USB, eMail, SMB & FTP…
Xerox Versalink: Multifunktionsdrucker geben Zugangsdaten preis
In den Versalink-Multifunktionsdruckern von Xerox wurden Schwachstellen entdeckt, durch die Angreifer Zugangsdaten abgreifen können.
corpus de la thèse :
Pierre Fablet, Actualités du Monde Libre [AML] - Apparition n°5, 1980
Drucker: Xerox will Lexmark übernehmen
Für insgesamt 1,5 Milliarden US-Dollar will Xerox den Konkurrenten Lexmark schlucken – und dadurch Boden auf bestimmten Märkten gutmachen.
Like seriously, I'm not a prophet, but a #Linux #Sysadmin but when I tell people "#Inkjet #printers are a scam!" it's fucking grounded in reality.
Same goes for a shitty #OfficeJet #MFP who's sole purpose is to to be a #Scanner...
So yeah, espechally for #Printing, just get yourself a #refurbished #Xerox #WorkCentre or something cuz #Toner can't dry out and it'll be cheaper no matter if you print one page per year or 1.000 in a single day!
@brian_gettler In 1985 at the #McMaster #Chemistry Department, I was one of three inaugural recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships from the #Xerox Research Centre of Canada. The other two were Chemical Engineering PhD students, possibly in Alberta. My understanding was that this was to ‘experiment’ with university-industry graduate research partnerships that are still popular in the #UnitedStates. The Xerox program no longer exists, and neither does the XRCC itself. Sad.
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The "final” FauxStar tower & display. For anyone who's seen seen my project to create a 30% scale replica of the #Xerox Dandelion (aka 8010, aka Star, aka 1108), you may be thinking that I already posted this weeks ago. Well, I did, but I needed to make minor tweaks to the chassis and the display base. I also swapped out the USB-C external connector for one which is easier to mount securely.
Next stop is logos, then keyboard & mouse.
Booting in Tajo:
https://youtu.be/FJ-2g1LUqd8
Yes! My floppy emulator now successfully boots the Xerox 820 by emulating an FM-formatted 8" floppy disk drive!
The hardware is a prototype Adafruit Floppsy and the code is not online yet as my last "aha" moment about correct FM encoding probably broke MFM encoding and I didn't want to do that.
I'll get it cleaned up and pushed to that open pull request in Adafruit_Floppy tomorrow with any luck.
(Neither MFM nor FM emulation support writing, and I don't think implementing that's on the table right now, so this is still much less capable than a gotek with flashfloppy.. but I'm still excited about it)
![A photograph of a CRT monitor with white text on black background. The raster lines are faintly visible. You can see the beige bezel on all sides and the XEROX logo at the bottom left.
The screen shows a short session where CP/M booted and the directory was listed. It is incompletely transcribed below:
...XEROX 820 VER. 2.0...
A - BOOT SYSTEM
T - TYPEWRITER
* B
COPYRIGHT (C) 1981, XEROX CORPORATION
CP/M REG. TM 2.2 SY 2.0 2-294 BS2004265
A>DIR
A: COPY COM : M80 COM : DDT COM
(directory listing continues)
A>[block cursor]](https://social.afront.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/505/859/338/640/380/original/27df317805f994df.jpeg "A photograph of a CRT monitor with white text on black background. The raster lines are faintly visible. You can see the beige bezel on all sides and the XEROX logo at the bottom left.
The screen shows a short session where CP/M booted and the directory was listed. It is incompletely transcribed below:
...XEROX 820 VER. 2.0...
A - BOOT SYSTEM
T - TYPEWRITER
* B
COPYRIGHT (C) 1981, XEROX CORPORATION
CP/M REG. TM 2.2 SY 2.0 2-294 BS2004265
A>DIR
A: COPY COM : M80 COM : DDT COM
(directory listing continues)
A>[block cursor]")
La historia de Xerox Alto 
En 1973 se desarrolló la Xerox Alto, una computadora que incorporó dos novedades nunca antes vistas hasta ese momento: la interfaz gráfica de usuario y el concepto de escritorio.
#xerox #xeroxalto #historia #retrocomputing
homecomputer.com.ar/2020/11/10/1...
Some progress on my #Xerox Dandelion small scale replica. You can now see the Maintenance Panel displaying 990 which means all is good in the world for the Xerox Development Environment, aka Tajo. The final version will be red like the real thing.
The micro SD of the #raspberrypi is available through the front, though I just noticed that it sticks out too far for the panel door to close. Nuts. That's ok though since I haven't come up with a hinge I like yet. More in alt-text.
1980's Xerox 6010 electronic daisywheel typewriter, with Xerox branded cover and printed manual.
I made a small donation to the local RSPCA animal charity for this.
It's far more yellowed than the photo shows, seems a common issue with phone photos of old tech.
