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Ah, now you have picked a topic on which I can comment!<br>
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!important; float: none;">George Pake was a visiting scholar at
CASBS (Center Advanced in Study in the Behavior Science)<br>
when I was a statistics advisor to the fellows, circa 1975. At
lunch I asked him why had PARC<br>
not commercialized the Alto? His short replay was "Not our
charter". I also knew Adele Goldberg<br>
who was a Post Doc at IMSSS (Institute for Mathematical Studies on
the Social Sciences) when<br>
I was doing my graduate work at IMSSS. She was married to my good
friend Alex Cannara at that<br>
time. She showed me the Alto when I visited PARC. Its hard drive
was a large platter which, iirc,<br>
held only 14MB of data. It had the bitmap display, mouse, and
ethernet. I also knew Doug Englebart<br>
who (incidentally developed the mouse). He was quite down on the
fact that people knew him for<br>
that since his whole "augment" system was much more than just the
mouse. However, John McCarthy<br>
(the creator of Lisp) said about the augment system "why do I have
to think like Doug Englebart?"<br>
Many more stories about that rich period of time.<br>
-Doug Danforth<span></span></span><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/24/2017 2:43 AM, Tomas Kral wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
A bit of history, this is where it all started.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/348">http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/348</a>
In the Lab picture from left to right, Jim Mitchell, Ed Fiala, Terry
Roberts, an unknown girl with a cigar(?), Wesley Clark, and Ed Taft.
NOTE: Ed Fiala, a fellow contryman, (Eduard Fiala), I wonder what these
people are today up to?
When reading `Alto' specs, not seeing the size, price, etc. Still sounds
like today's computing :-)
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