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Fumbling the future
Douglas K. Smith; Robert C. Alexander
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Fumbling the future

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…o "waste time" on a product that at the time had a very small potential market. That's how Alan Kay sums up the history, anyways. There's a much more complete account in Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer : http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Comp...

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