Computer scientist Alan Kay was the person responsible for the visionary research at Xerox.
The Xerox Alto was made by Xerox Corporation at its Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California.
Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
Yes, Xerox PARC is located in the US. It is on a hillside in Palo Alto, California. PARC stands for Palo Alto Research Center.
The senior managment of Xerox Corporation did not recognize the value of what they had, and management at their Palo Alto Research Center knew that Xerox did not know how to develop it, even if they recognized its value. So they let Steven Jobs see it.
The Xerox Alto was an experimental form of what would now be called a "networked desktop computer." It was developed in the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center before the IMB PC or Apple I hit the market. Xerox deployed the Alto in many of its manufacturing and research locations, as well as within Ginn and Company, a book publisher that was then a Xerox subsidiary. However, the Alto was never offered in the commercial market. The Xerox 6085 (Xerox Star), using using a graphical user interface and operating system ultimately called GlobalView, was derived from the Alto and was eventually offered in the commercial market. It was unable to compete with the less costly PC and Apple Macintosh and was eventually discontinued.
A "Xerox operator" is a person who knows how to operate a printer, copier, or other machine sold by Xerox Corporation, and who knows some of the basic methods of dealing with common machine operational problems.
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC, is the lab where many of the seminal computer and networking technologies were developed over the last 30 years.
The Xerox Alto was developed in 1973 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California . The name "Alto" came from the location, Palo Alto. The Alto was a development machine and was not marketed. However, machines based upon the Alto were eventually offered in the marketplace.
Xerox Corporation sells its products and services throughout California, among many other places. The corporation has manufacturing facilities in and around Los Angeles and has a major research center in the Bay Area (Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC). It also has a subsidiary that operates call centers and provides other business services in California and elsewhere.
They rented a new Xerox machine from Xerox Corporation.
XEROX
The Xerox Corporation developed and brought to market the first xerographic (plain paper) copier. This revolutionized the business office environment. The Xerox Corporation also invented the Ethernet computer networking system and the graphical user interface, and was the first to successfully apply the computer mouse on a large scale. Many other critical elements of personal computers and computer networking were first created at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, although largely ignored by Xerox Corporation and brought to market by other companies.