I thought he was joining Apple, not Xerox. . . Erik S. Klein www.vintage-computer.com

Well, lets skip this, although I belive the world would be better of at the moment with a different US president... anyway. What I remember from READING the interview was above content. So your memory might be better than mine. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 4.0 am 03./04. Mai 2003 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/

ROTFL. Excuse my ignorance, but who is Alexander Haig? I rember some Nato guy named haig, but I'm not shure. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 4.0 am 03./04. Mai 2003 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote: Same guy. He was a retired general when the event below occurred. - don

Contemporaneous press reports indicate that the word used was "control". I don't know why leaving off a word before or after a quote makes the quotation "incorrect" complete with exclamation point, but I do think that getting a word wrong is, quite simply, wrong. -W United Press International March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle Copyright 1981 U.P.I. March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle SECTION: Washington News LENGTH: 507 words DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY: Here is the chronology of the attack on President Reagan Monday: 2:20 p.m. -- Reagan completes address to the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department at the Washington Hilton Hotel. 2:28 p.m. -- Reagan emerges from the hotel and begins walking toward his limousine when, amidst a crowd cheering and reporters shouting questions, six gun shots ring out. White House Press Secretary James Brady, Washington policeman Thomas Delahanty and a Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy are hit. 2:28 p.m. -- Secret Service agents shove Reagan into the limousine while other agents, with the aide of police, overcome the suspected assailant, later identified as John W. Hinckley Jr. 25, of Evergreen, Colo. 2:29 p.m. -- Hinckley, a college drop and drifter who recently has been under psychiatric care, is whisked away to District of Columbia police headquaters. A policeman there said, ''He looked dazed, like he didn't know what was going on.'' 2:32 p.m. -- Reagan enters emergency room at George Washington University Hospital. Two of other wounded are also brought there. 2:55 p.m. -- Vice President George Bush, on a speaking tour in Texas, is advised the president has been shot; he flies back to Washington. 3:15 p.m. -- The White House, which in the initial chaos reported that the president was not hit, says Reagan was struck by a bullet in the left chest. 3:37 p.m. -- White House staff director David Gergen tells a news briefing that Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Treasury Secretary Regan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General William French Smith are on hand, but that no formal transfer of power was contemplated. 4:25 p.m. -- Reagan enters surgery at GW hospital, telling friends, ''Don't worry about me. I'll make it.'' 4:30 p.m. -- Haig tells reporters, ''As of now, I am in control here in the White House pending return of the vice president, and in close touch with him.'' 5:19 p.m. -- A 10-car police motorcade transfers Hinckly to a FBI's Buzzard's Point field office for questioning. 6:30 p.m. -- Surgery on the president is completed. Dr. Dennis O'Leary, head of GW's clinical surgery, tells reporters that the 70-year-old chief executive's ''prognosis is excellent,'' adding ''at no time was he in serious danger.'' 7 p.m. -- Vice President George Bush arrives at the White House. He tells reporters, ''I can reassure this nation and the watching world this nation is functioning fully and effectively.'' 8:15 p.m. -- White House press secretary Brady, who was shot through the brain, emerges from 4 -hour surgery. Lyn Nofziger, Reagan's political director, says ''His vital signs are stable. His pupillary reflexes -- that's the reflexes of his pupils in his eyes -- are normal. Dr. Kobrine feels there may be some impairment, but he doesn't know how much at this time, nor will he be able to know for quite some time.'' 11:52 p.m. -- Hinckley appears for a 43-minute hearing in U.S. District Court. He is ordered held without bond pending arraignment Thursday.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Hans Franke wrote: Didn't Xerox or someone like that invent the GUI?

I do believe that is right. Xerox Palo Alto (Parc) created the GUI and the mouse on the Alto series of machines iirc. IIRC, Sun Microsystems is the only company I'm aware of which pays Xerox a fee to license these concepts. Regards, Jeff -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of vance(a)neurotica.com Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:46 PM To: Hans Franke Cc: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Look at this - Didn't Xerox or someone like that invent the GUI?

Jeffrey S. Worley wrote: Xerox invented neither the GUI nor the mouse. Perhaps you're confusing Xerox with Douglas Engelbart?