COMPANY FILE · EST. 1970

Xerox PARC

Xerox established its Palo Alto Research Center in 1970 to explore an “office of the future.” PARC teams developed the Alto workstation, Ethernet networking, laser printing, and software ideas that influenced later personal-computing systems. Those innovations came from collaborative research and iterative prototypes; their path into commercial products involved licensing, management choices, and work at other companies too.