cctech Digest, Vol 70, Issue 6

[Tim Mann]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:57:20 -0500, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
> Has anyone read Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the
> Computer Age ?
...
> Anyone have any back stories or have read the book?  I've got it on
> order, but I've read some scathing reviews about how the author got it
> wrong.  I know some of the scathing reviews might be by people who
> weren't described in a favorable light in the book --- but I've seen
> plenty of technical stories get screwed up.

I remember reading and enjoying Dealers of Lightning several years ago
when it came out.  I worked with some of the PARC folks at their next
gig (DEC Systems Research Center, run by Bob Taylor), and I don't
remember people there having major complaints about the book getting
things wrong.  Of course a book like this never gets everything right --
certainly not to everyone's satisfaction, since different people who
experienced the same events don't see them the same way.

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Tim Mann  tim at tim-mann.org  http://tim-mann.org/