23 Jun
1998
23 Jun
'98
5:19 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
The Star that I remember from a Xerox demo, lo these many years ago, had
a white case.
- don
Actually,
Tony, we in the Silicon Valley area were recently treated to a
live demo of the Star at Xerox PARC, and one of the things we learned was
that the "Daybreak" (we're talking about the brown tower case about 2'
high x 16" deep by 16" wide, right?) is a later model of the Star (Model
It's a little smaller than that, but it is the brown tower case machine.
And it's related to the Star (and to all the other D-machines). 8035 I
believe?) So I hope I'm remembering all this correctly, and I hope
someone will jump in here if I'm wrong, but you may actually have a Star
in your midst.
Well, I have a related machine. Needless to say (as an ancient
workstation enthusiast), I'd like a Star, and all the other D-machines,
and a ...
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
-tony