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LaserWriter seeds

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By John Buck
| Ghost
As the Homebrew Computer Club met and MITS frantically shipped Altairs, researchers at Xerox PARC were seemingly a decade or more ahead. They already knew what would make personal computers useful, and researchers were working on an ecosystem to support a typical office task. Writing and printing documents. Gary Starkweather had tested his SLOT laser printer using analog signals, flying-spot scanners, and raw binary test patterns to prove it was capable of high-quality printing.
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The mad dash to build the future of multimedia

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By John Buck
| Tech News Tube
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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The mad dash to build the future of multimedia

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By John Buck
| The Verge Verified
by John Buck Mar 30, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC Image: Image: The Verge, Apple Part Of Apple @ 50 see all John Buck is an award winning media professional & industry historian. He built a digital video editing career on the Apple Mac, and then pivoted to podcast producer by day and documentary book author at night. He’s also a dad, from Kalgoorlie. It’s 1989.
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