Comment on Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI InternationalparentComments−AlbertCory3yThere is actually a book which you can get for free (or could, at one time):https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Nobody-Wanted-Years-Xerox/d...we can call it "the book nobody wanted." /sStrassman tells how he offered the PARC people a very good deal on an SDS machine, and they turned up their noses at it. They wanted a PDP-10, but they weren't allowed to buy from DEC, so they built their own lookalike (Maxc).
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There is actually a book which you can get for free (or could, at one time):
https://www.amazon.com/Computers-Nobody-Wanted-Years-Xerox/d...
we can call it "the book nobody wanted." /s
Strassman tells how he offered the PARC people a very good deal on an SDS machine, and they turned up their noses at it. They wanted a PDP-10, but they weren't allowed to buy from DEC, so they built their own lookalike (Maxc).