24 Jan
2024
24 Jan
'24
3:58 p.m.
You all should check out David Greelish's new documentary on the Mac. It
just came out today or it just about to be released. We should all support
our fellow vintage computer historians, I know he put a lot of time into
it. David has been writing about the Mac's significance before Wikipedia
even existed
Bill
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:43 PM Jonathan Stone via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 02:16:44 PM PST, Sellam Abraham via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
[...]
But basically, Jobs never stole anything. He was
pretty much invited to
take a look, and then entered into some sort of exclusivity deal (I may
be
wrong about this detail) to use Xerox tech.
Xerox upper execs didn't
see a
market in this kind of hardware; copiers were
their game, so they didn't
get what they had, and didn't care. If anything, Apple should be thanked
for taking what would have been deadend technology at Xerox and making a
product with it. Basically.
Not exactly. Xerox *did* have products based on the D-machines (DandeLion,
DandeTiger, etc).
They were a commercial failure. Allegedly (from a Lisp-machine user at the
time) at least in part because the Xerox sales force only knew how to sell
devices that had a toner hooper.
Wikipedia on the Daybreak (last D*-machine) says they were used
extensively withi Xerox until replaced by PCs r Sun workstations.