My dad was an engineer for Underwood; held several patents for them. Underwoods were made in Hartford; not far from Twain's Nook Farm; a few blocks from Royal Typewriter. Then, Olivetti bought out Underwood; the plant closed soon after that.
Posted on 04/12/2020 6:18:27 AM PDT by sodpoodle
I thought islam allowed that.
“What do Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser Printers have in common?
A. All were invented By women.”
From Wikipedia...
“In the 1960s, the Xerox Corporation held a dominant position in the photocopier market.[2] In 1969, Gary Starkweather, who worked in Xerox’s product development department, had the idea of using a laser beam to “draw” an image of what was to be copied directly onto the copier drum. After transferring to the recently formed Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in 1971, Starkweather adapted a Xerox 7000 copier to create SLOT (Scanned Laser Output Terminal). In 1972, Starkweather worked with Butler Lampson and Ronald Rider to add a control system and character generator, resulting in a printer called EARS (Ethernet, Alto Research character generator, Scanned laser output terminal)—which later became the Xerox 9700 laser printer.[3][4][5]”
thank have read a few things about Xerox the PARC system, the visit by Jobs and corporate not wanting to sell the computer/office system, Jobs would later model the Mac after, because “WE ARE NOT A COMPUTER COMPANY.”
Rule of thumb...
“A modern folk etymology holds that the phrase is derived from the maximum width of a stick allowed for wife-beating under English law, but no such law ever existed. This belief might have originated in a rumored statement by eighteenth-century judge Sir Francis Buller that a man may beat his wife with a stick no wider than his thumb. The rumor produced numerous jokes and satirical cartoons at Buller’s expense, but there is no record that he made such a statement.”
Interesting... But mostly false.
Well, yeah.
That's why they gave Steve Austin the bionic eye and Jamie Sommers the ear.
Women have a better memory, they can remember everything you’ve ever said for the past twenty years, right down to the date and time.
My dad was an engineer for Underwood; held several patents for them. Underwoods were made in Hartford; not far from Twain's Nook Farm; a few blocks from Royal Typewriter. Then, Olivetti bought out Underwood; the plant closed soon after that.
And why do they still sell their eggs in dozens? They don't have a duodecimal system!
And why do they still sell their socks in pairs? They don't have a binary system!
Regards,
I could never understand how the mechanical part of the ASR-33 teletype worked.
So a quart is a quarter of what?
I used to use reading upside down as part of the interview process in hiring software engineers. It shows one has good spatial relations and language skills. I’d write on a piece of paper, “If you can read this, you still have a chance in getting hired.” I’d have it facing me, so it was upside down to the interviewee. He would get bonus points for asking about it. I like people that have the guts to say what’s on their minds, and if they could read it, it most certainly would be on their minds.
Yes it was Xerox Parc that invented the wysiwyg interface and Jobs, ahem, “copied” it.
Great story and great lost opportunity that would have changed the course of computing. Maybe after a few more years of MSDOS others would have invented an icon based system.
BKMK
The alaska numbers must be from the summer months.
It was a case of Jobs recognizing how important ease of use and an intuitive interface were to make the PC ubiquitous.
His vision was always to make the PC as easy to use as an appliance. and though he did not invent it, he immediately saw the value of wysiwyg and jumped on it, whereas Xerox did not.
My mom was a secretary and we had Underwoods and Royals around the house, so, as a kid I started out just banging the keys and eventually learned how to type, somewhat, at least enough to help greatly with my keyboarding skills when computers came around.
Interestingly enough, mom could never get the hang of electrics, so accustomed was she with smashing the keys on the manual typewriters she used during her career.
Still have a few stashed away in the basement.
They’ve been drinking beer longer than that.
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