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Goldman tells it in another way. In 1969 Xerox had simply purchased Scientific Knowledge Methods (SDS), a mainframe pc producer. "When Xerox purchased SDS," he recalled, "I walked promptly into the workplace of Peter McColough and stated, 'Look, now that we're on this digital pc enterprise, we higher damned nicely have a analysis laboratory!' " In any case, the outcome was the Xerox Palo Alto Analysis Middle (PARC) in California, probably the most uncommon company analysis organizations of our time. PARC is one in all three analysis facilities inside Xerox; the opposite two are in Webster, N.Y., and Toronto, Ont., Canada. It employs roughly 350 researchers, managers, and help employees (by comparability, Bell Laboratories earlier than the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Within the mid-Seventies, near half of the highest 100 pc scientists on the earth have been working at PARC, and the laboratory boasted comparable energy in different fields, together with solid-state physics and optics.