[rescue] Re: Of mice and men

[Sheldon T. Hall]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:21:07 +0200 roosmcd at dds.nl said ...

> Follow-up on my message:
>
> Two better pictures:
>
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http://www.spotlife.com/users2/sciencelink/oct17_computermuseum/image027.htm
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http://www.spotlife.com/users2/sciencelink/oct17_computermuseum/image019.htm
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>  From classiccmp mailing list:
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> "I have some details on it from the Whitechapel technical manual. It was
> first made in early 1982 (so not quite 20 years old) by a Swiss
company....

[snip]

Hmmm.  Early eighties.  Swiss....  Has it any relation to the
Wirth-designed, Modula-2-based computer some Swiss company was trying to
sell at the time?  First commercial computer with a mouse, maybe; I don't
think you could actually buy a Xerox Star then.  I suggested my
employer-of-that-era buy one, as it seemed like a good solution to our doco
production problems.  Wazzit a "Lilith" or summat?

-Shel