Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander

Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer

Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. Alexander

276 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction business history technology challenging informative slow-paced

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Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borl...

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