Tom McMahon is putting a variety of historical materials on the Internet Archive where it may, perhaps, survive the collapse of our civilization. For a variety of technical reasons, it seems that the search engines do not crawl that corner of the Internet universe and so this is an experiment to see if we cant use my blog to add these documents to the larger collective unconscious.
This particular collection is of white papers from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Many years ago, when I was probably working at the RAND Corporation, I saw my first Alto. You can not imagine what an impact it had on me. This is the future, I thought to myself. As it turns out, the hardware and the software that they conceived is everywhere, but the idealism and intelligence which lay behind it got lost in the mad rush to steal the ideas by Apple and the others.
Find the white papers, courtesy of Tom McMahon, here on the Internet Archive.
