Xerox had the Star and Altos computers that had Apple look at during their visit of the PARC place. It influenced the Apple Lisa and Macintosh line of computers

Xerox had the Star and Altos computers that had Apple look at during their visit of the PARC place. It influenced the Apple Lisa and Macintosh line of computers. Without that Apple would still be an 8 bit company using commands instead of icons. There was an exchange of Apple stock to Xerox for use of their GUI by Apple. https://youtu.be/eZUEWd5OZ2Y https://youtu.be/eZUEWd5OZ2Y