Dealers of Lightning (83 page)
Source Notes
Introduction: The Time Machine
Page
xxv Bill Gates's defense: Manes & Andrews,
Gates,
p. 361.
xxvii Didn't even patent: "Xerox Won't Duplicate Past Errors,"
Business
Week,
9/29/97, p. 98.
The Alto failed: Stross, Randall E., "Mr. Gates Builds His Brain Trust,"
Fortune,
December 8, 1997.
8 The notion of a human: Palfreman & Swade,
The Dream Machine,
p. 97.
9 "The Computer as a Communications Device":
Science if Technology,
April 1968.
12 That made me nervous: Licklider Oral History, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
12 I did not feel: Ibid.
22 McColough thought: George White, 10/6/97.
24 If we're going to be big: McColough, quoted in Jacobson & Hillkirk,
Xerox: American Samurai, p. 214.
24
Peter turned over: White.
25
He should have known: Goldman, 11/6/97.
25
The only ballgame: Jacobson & Hillkirk, p. 214.
26
determined to make a deal: Palevsky, 4/21/98.
26 very, very short:
Los Angeles Times
, 2/11/69.
29 It had been making profits: Jacobson & Hillkirk, p. 214.
29
It was a great phrase: David Liddle, 6/17/98.
30
He was talking: Richard Jones, 3/10/98.
30
He never tired: White
31
If the new research center: Goldman,
Proposal for a New Corporate
Advanced Scientific
Chapter 3: The House on Porter Drive
41 I'm one of the oldest: Wes Clark Oral History, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
41 That of a very large: Clark, "The LINC Was Early and Small" in Goldberg (ed.),
A History of Personal Workstations,
p. 357. (Italics in original.)
41 Time-sharers were still: Clark oral history.
41 At that time computers: Severo Ornstein Oral History, Charles Babbage Institute.
44
During his time at ARPA: Robert Taylor, J. C. R. Licklider oral histories, Charles Babbage Institute
44 4
5 Taylor conversation with Herzfeld: Taylor oral history; Taylor to author,
9/10/98.
45
I blackmailed: Ibid.
46
It was ridiculous: Ibid.
47 Taylor visits to Vietnam: Taylor, Wessler interviews; Taylor oral history.
47 the White House got a single report: Taylor oral history.
56 Xerox's "lost decade": Jacobson & Hillkirk, p. 69.
59-60 Goldman's meeting: Thornburg interview 9/12/97; Perry & Wallich,
"Inside the PARC: The 'Information Architects,'"
IEEE Spectrum,
October 1985, p. 72.
61 PARC pay scale: Frank Squires, 1/8/98.
64
Engelbart first encountered: Engelbart, "The Augmented Knowledge
Workshop," in Goldberg, p. 234.
65
No one is quite sure: Ibid., p. 196.
65
We built special electronics
. . .
Don't tell me!: Ibid., p. 203.
66
a prophet of biblical dimensions: Kay,
The Early History of Smalltalk,
p. 7 (in manuscript) (henceforth
Smalltalk).
67
rats running in his maze: Smokey Wallace, 11/16/97.
Chapter 5: Berkeley's Second System
74 The second is the most dangerous: Brooks,
The Mythical Man-Month,
p. 55.
Chapter 6: "Not Your Normal Person"
80 Alan believed his role: Harrold, "The Organ at the Alan Kay & Bonnie
MacBird Residence," in
The American Organ Academy Newsletter,
Winter 1996.
85
Computers' use of symbols: Kay, "Microelectronics and the Personal
Computer,"
Scientific American,
Sept. 1977, p. 244.
86
By the time I got to school: Shasta and Lazere,
Out of Their Minds
(1995), pp. 39-40.
89
As he toiled in Chippewa: Kay,
S7nalltalk,
p. 4.
90
Take this and read it: Ibid., p. 5.
91
you had to understand that: Shasta and Lazere, p. 42.
91 like seeing a glimpse of heaven: Palfreman & Swade, p. 96.
Minsky's "terrific diatribe": Kay, p.9.
The best outputs: Kay, "Microelectronics and the Personal Computer,"
p. 127.
92
If the medium: Kay and Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media," in
Goldberg (ed.), A
Histonj of Personal Workstations,
p. 256.
93
users found repellent: Kay quoted in Rheingold,
Tools for Thought,
Chapter 11 (Internet version, unpaged).
94
The big whammy: Kay,
The Early History of Smalltalk,
pp. 9-10.
99 I must be on every sucker list:
New York Times, 6/26/72.
99 We sold them a dead horse: DeLamarter,
Big Blue,
p. 100.
99 He denied: Palevsky interview, 4/21/98.
100 Palevsky fantasizes about IBM: "Xerox-SDS: Marriage That Was
Meant to Be?"
Los Angeles Times,
2/11/69.
100
Telling McColough what he wanted to hear: Palevsky interview,
4/21/98.
101
IBM and competitors' financial results: Delamarter, p. 352.
110
Intel's problems with the 1103: Jackson,
Inside Intel
,
p. 79.
111
Pake memo to management: Smith & Alexander,
Fumbling the Future,
pp. 145-146; Pake interview, 5/19/97.
Chapter 8: The Future Invented
118 The IMPs formed a subnetwork: Hafner & Lyon,
Where Wizards Stay
Up Late,
p. 80.
118 Jerry was not universally liked: Severo Ornstein Oral History, Charles
Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota.
122 Pendery really didn't understand
...
to invent it: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 13.
143 A bunch of horse's asses: Perry & Wallich, p. 67.
143
It was Monday night: Goldman interview, 5/6/97.
144
Jack Lewis saving the 9700: Harold Hall, personal communication.
Chapter ID: Beating the Dealer
152 continuous form of peer review: Thacker, "The Alto and Ethernet
Hardware," in Goldberg, p. 268.
Chapter
11:
Spacewar
160-161 I recall almost a sadness: Perry & Wallich, p. 72; Thornburg, 9/12/97.
163
Thacker-Lampson-Kay conversation: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 18.
164
Origin of "Smalltalk" name: Ibid., p. 14.
164 Kay meeting with Elkind: Ibid., p. 16.
166 What's a budget: Ibid., p. 19; English, 5/21/97.
169
Chronology of the Alto design: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 19; Thacker, in Goldberg, p. 274.
170
Ron Rider
...
put it together himself: Perry & Wallich, p. 66. The manager quoted was Bert Sutherland.
170
quality
of man-machine interaction: Thacker in Goldberg, p. 272.
Chapter 13: The Bobbsey Twins Build a Network
179 He padded over: Metcalfe, "How Ethernet Was Invented," in
IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing,
vol 16, no. 4, p. 84.
179 The first time I ever heard: Ted Kaehler, 4/18/97.
185 The ultimate 29-Nova: Metcalfe, p. 83.
185 too many moving parts: Ibid.
187 luminiferous aether: Ibid.
189 There was no chip
. . .
every piece of it: Ibid., p. 84; Metcalfe, 9/15/97.
191
Ethernet was up against: Ibid., p. 86.
192
One after another
of my
colleagues: Ibid., p. 87.
Chapter 14: What You See Is What You Get
195
All this was very exhilarating: Lammers,
Programmers at Work,
p. 9.
196
with an incredible headache: Ibid., p. 8.
Chapter 15: On the Lunatic Fringe
211
The graphics researcher . . . e-mail message: Perry & Wallich, p. 68.
212
Warren Teitelman once returned: Ibid., p. 68.
213
Millions of people: Lampson, guest editorial in
Software-Practice and
Experience,
vol. 2, pp. 195-196.
218 With as much panache: Kay,
Smalltalk,
p. 18.