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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (21897)	12/3/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>Chaz, you're getting a little testy here. It's not a big deal, Sorry. I do get testy about Alan Kay. Researchers work for reputation, and when a guy takes credit for the work of others he deserves to be excoriated. Not that Alan Kay didn't do any of the work. But there were one or two dozen people working on those teams, most of whom shared their ideas with the others freely and without letting their own ambitions and dreams interfere with collaboration. The lack of links relating to all this on the web is interesting. I am beginning to think the web will never be a very good research resource on things pre-web, except for the stuff like library of congress and so forth. Most of the magazines are only going back a few years into the archives when they go web. Interesting, but I didn't have time to dig: parc.xerox.com click on the 'Alto' As far as the dynabook is concerned, it was a very influential concept. All sorts of ideas were flying around in those days that were seminal, of course, including probably a majority that were right out of the heads of the science fiction writers and the friends they plumbed for story ideas. Interestingly, searching the Xerox Parc site for Dynabook produces no results, and searching for Alan Kay produces only a passing note in a paper about someone having worked for Kay at Atari. They seem to start their in-house tech history in the 1970's. Guess those older geezers have retired into oblivion. History now belongs to those who control the search engines or post the most, I guess. Chaz