On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Craig Latta <<a href="mailto:craig@netjam.org">craig@netjam.org</a>> wrote:<br>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!<br>
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Fun interview!<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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And there's always <a href="http://folklore.org" target="_blank">folklore.org</a>, which recounts many interesting Apple anecdotes from back in the day.<br>
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thanks again!<br>
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-C<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.fireinthevalley.com" target="_blank">http://www.fireinthevalley.com</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://tinyurl.com/64fv2u" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/64fv2u</a> (<a href="http://amazon.com" target="_blank">amazon.com</a>)<br><font color="#888888">
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Craig Latta<br>
improvisational musical informaticist<br>
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