Monthly Archives: June 2009

Life at PARC: Organic food, Unix parties, coyotes, and geeks

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Lisa Katayama

What’s everyday life like at Silicon Valley’s most famous research center? To find out, I talked to YF Juan, a director of business develpment at PARC, and communications manager Linda Jacobson. Much like the research that goes on behind the … Continue reading →

How to receive thousands of satellite channels

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

An amazing story in the New York Times reads like a science fiction pastiche of the last century: Lee Si-kap, a shy farmer living in this central South Korean town, holds a record: He owns more satellite dishes than any … Continue reading →

Byte Magazine, August 1981

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Steven Leckart

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Posted on June 30, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

OK, who is buying 13″ MacBook Pros. Hands up! Link

Contest: Win an Alto User’s Handbook & Smalltalk Instruction Manual

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Steven Leckart

When I visited PARC for the second time, I asked the staff what kinds of historical mementos they had lying around. Not only did they promptly hand me a copy of the Alto User’s Handbook from 1979 and a Smalltalk-72 … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 30, 2009 by Dean Putney

How to start and drive a Ford Model T: Link via Neatorama

Sputnik: Videos of Interconnected Ideas, Thinkers

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Steven Leckart

Info architect Jonathan Harris explains his latest work, which launched today: The central premise of the Sputnik project is that everything is connected to everything else, and that topics and ideas that may seem fringe and even heretical to the … Continue reading →

Photo and original diagram of the world’s first ethernet cable

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Lisa Katayama

Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world’s first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of interacting … Continue reading →

PARC: What’s w/the Shagadelic Carpet & Beanbag Chairs?

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Steven Leckart

PARC’s responsive mirror = every girl’s shopping fantasy come true

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Lisa Katayama

I’m sitting on a stool in a plain white room at the Palo Alto Research Center, checking out my new earrings via a small desktop mirror. They’re a big dangly pair, each with a white porcelain rose and a black … Continue reading →