Steve Jobs' legendary Xerox visit happened after Apple's Lisa and Macintosh were already in development.
This episode explores the history of the Xerox Alto, the pioneering 1970s computer that featured a graphical user interface, mouse, and other innovations that would later define personal computing. It tells the story of how Xerox PARC engineers like Charles Thacker created groundbreaking technology that the company failed to commercialize, leaving Apple to bring similar concepts to the masses with the Macintosh.
