In one sense, the Starkweather story is of a piece with the Steve Jobs visit.
Starkweather is retired now, and lives in a gated community just north of Orlando, Florida.
Then Starkweather wanted to make what he called a photo-typesetter, which produced camera-ready copy right on your desk.
The more Starkweather talked, the more apparent it became that his entire career had been a version of this problem.
Then Starkweather heard that Xerox was opening a research center in Palo Alto, three thousand miles away from its New York headquarters.
Gary Starkweather joined Apple after Steve Jobs had left the company.
After that, Starkweather and Goldman had an idea for getting the laser printer to market quickly: graft a laser onto a Xerox copier called the 7000.
Steve Jobs visited was an optical engineer named Gary Starkweather.
What Starkweather wanted to do was take the array of bits and bytes, ones and zeros that constitute digital images, and transfer them straight into the guts of a copier.
Once, before the palatial Coyote Hill Road building was constructed, a group that Starkweather had to be connected to was moved to another building, across the Foothill Expressway, half a mile away.
So Starkweather fired a laser through the air between the two buildings, an improvised communications system that meant that, if you were driving down the Foothill Expressway on a foggy night and happened to look up, you might see a mysterious red beam streaking across the sky.
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