I agree with your comments on PARC Jan. I still have all the original Smalltalk
books, a umatic video from PARC explaining the language and a floppy disk of
the first implementation of Smalltalk for the IBM PC - serial number 19.
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On 5 Nov 2017, at 16:27, Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Considering that personal computers have been around since 1975 or so, they
>> also have shown a lot of ignorance it they think those questions apply to
>> anyone over 50. I'm 54 and I've been playing around with computers since
>> high school.
>
> To be fair, you and I are probably outliers.
>
> When I was building computers in my garage, friends and relatives were
> saying, “What would you ever want THAT for?” And quite frankly, I had trouble
> telling them! (Until I read “Dream Machines,” see below.)
>
> So I think it’s probably more true than false that people “of a certain age”
> were not on the computer bandwagon since its inception.
>
>> Or Doug Engelbart who sketched out the whole concept of hyperlinks and
>> built the first mouse muchh earlier.
>
> I thought it was Ted Nelson (in “Dream Machines/Computer Lib”) who came up
> with hypertext in 1974? (My copy is getting yellow. Should I store it in
> nitrogen? :-)
>
> I met Doug Englebart at a conference, along with Adele Goldberg and many
> others of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre luminaries. Most people have no
> idea how much we owe to Xerox PARC — the mouse, ethernet, windowing
> interfaces, menus, scroll bars, object-oriented programming — all came out of
> Xerox PARC.
>
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
>
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