Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the personal computer by Leo
Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the personal computer. Describes a visit by Steve Jobs to Xerox PARC in 1979. Describes the innovations the Alto featured, including the mouse, icons, and “windows.” Xerox soon began selling a version of the Alto. It was slow and underpowered and Xerox withdrew from personal computers. Jobs, meanwhile, raced back to Apple, and demanded that the team working on the company’s next generation of personal computers change course. He wanted menus on the screen. He wanted windows. He wanted a mouse. The result was the Macintosh, perhaps the most famous product in the history of Silicon Valley.
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Leo,
This is well-written and gives a thorough summary.
The first three sentences have a punctuation error. I think you can combine them into two sentences:
-Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the personal computer. Describes a visit by Steve Jobs to Xerox PARC in 1979. Describes the innovations the Alto featured, including the mouse, icons, and “windows.”
can become this:"Xerox PARC, Apple, and the creation of the personal computer" describes a visit by Steve Jobs to Xerox PARC in 1979. It also describes the innovations the Alto featured, including the mouse, icons, and “windows.”
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