[squeak-dev] Re: (Slightly OT) Dan Ingalls on FLOSS "Weekly"

Rob Rothwell r.j.rothwell at gmail.com
Sun May 25 00:50:08 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
Another title is "Dealers of Lightning:  XEROX PARC and the Dawn of the
Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik.  It's even published as a very
entertaining audio book, which is the whole reason I even found out about
Smalltalk and hence discovered Squeak about 4 years ago!

Rob



>     Fun interview!
>
>     At one point, Leo laments an absence of literary coverage of PARC's
> 1979 demo for Apple and its ramifications. It's out there. One interesting
> source is "Fire in the Valley, the Making of the Personal Computer"[1] by
> Paul Freiberger (another ex-Intervalite) and Michael Swaine, which was also
> the basis for the hilarious film "Pirates of Silicon Valley"[2]. There's
> even a scene featuring that demo, complete with an indignant rendering of
> Adele. :)  And there's also the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds"[3],
> featuring appearances from many of the actual people.
>
>     Another source is the classic (infamous?) "Fumbling the Future: How
> Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer"[4], by Douglas K.
> Smith and Robert C. Alexander, which Leo even attempts to mention (he can't
> quite remember the title).
>
>     And there's always folklore.org, which recounts many interesting Apple
> anecdotes from back in the day.
>
>
>     thanks again!
>
> -C
>
> [1] http://www.fireinthevalley.com
> [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122
> [3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398
> [4] http://tinyurl.com/64fv2u (amazon.com)
>
> --
> Craig Latta
> improvisational musical informaticist
> www.netjam.org
> Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
>
>
>
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