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From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, computer mouse!
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:23:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VSdpeSYBk5GE=+93D6wo8UqA1rwGZvvmpHRSHjCAszhUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <777DD6D1-467D-4486-82E2-495AAE863F43@ronnatalie.com>

On 4/27/18, Ronald Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> PARC is well known for contributing things to the public that Xerox never
> quite got into a real product.   I always loved going to meetings there just
> to see what they had come up with this time.

For a while Gordon Bell used to hand out the Xerox PARC Award to the
R&D project that simultaneously did the most to advance the state of
the art and contributed the least to DEC's bottom line.

-Paul W.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-27 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-27  9:57 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 10:18 ` Hellwig Geisse
2018-04-27 10:58   ` William Corcoran
2018-04-27 11:13 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-04-27 12:13   ` Bakul Shah
2018-04-27 14:47   ` Ronald Natalie
2018-04-27 18:23     ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2018-04-27 12:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-04-27 21:00 ` Cág
2018-04-27 23:06 ` Dave Horsfall

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