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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Technology Forecasting
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.194020.22886@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:40:20 GMT
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|AUTHOR          Smith, Douglas K.
|TITLE           Fumbling the future : how Xerox invented, then ignored, the
|                 first personal computer / Douglas K. Smith and Robert C.
|                 Alexander.
|PUBLICATION     1st ed.  New York : W. Morrow, c1988.
|
|I couldn't get an ISBN out of the catalog, possibly my fault, but the
|book is current and should be at your local popular title bookstore.
|
|I've read it, it's a fun story although I don't know what others
|involved in Xerox during those years have said about the book's
|accuracy. Definitely non-technical and geared towards business types.

A funny story. When I borrowed this book out of our library, I found a
postit note inside saying "This story is TRUE. Signed: a Xerox
person". (Xerox has several sites in Rochester). Take this story
however you will. :-)