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/dp/1427632707/ref=sr_1_

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/dp/1427632707/ref=sr_1_1 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).