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thanks for the shoutout. Dealers of Lightning is indeed excellent. My book takes the path of putting fictional characters (except for Dan, who is me) in it, wh
by AlbertCory 4y ago
thanks for the shoutout. Dealers of Lightning is indeed excellent.
My book takes the path of putting fictional characters (except for Dan, who is me) in it, who do not know how it's going to turn out. I had the help of nearly everyone who's still alive, and all the actual events really happened. Xerox really did have a guy with a roll of $100 bills for paying off the unions at the trade shows.
As for the 40+ year-old debate about what Xerox should have done, Jerry Morrison and I considered that at length here:
https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight
- Aloha 4y agoThat was a great post! I didnt realize you did 3+Mail too, the whole 3com office suite and hardware is something almost lost to history, same with 3com NBX PBX.
- AlbertCory 4y agoThanks! 3+Mail is in the second book: https://www.albertcory.io/the-big-bucks https://www.albertcory.io/the-big-bucks Actual events like me pulling apart the ThinNet Ethernet cable and taking down the entire company for a few seconds (no one noticed), The Lisa adopting Hungarian notation because of the Simonyi influence (in one part of the code). DataPoint having a terrific LAN before anyone else, and going nowhere with it. 3Com buying Bridge, a leader in routers, and running it into the ground, meanwhile ignoring Cisco. 3Com'ers spending all day arguing about a post on WantAds, because they were so desperate for a social network.
- Aloha 4y agoYeah, I read about the Datapoint thing in the book about Datapoint, I was surprised, it was the parallel universe that I knew nothing about.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI thought I was the only person who read that :)
- Aloha 4y agoI suspect we are one of either tens or hundreds on here who have read it ;-)