[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed twine lacing

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>
> we didn't have any sort of mandate for this, we just wanted to learn
> about networking.  he got some notoriety for his spending, but no
> static that i ever heard of.  and that network became the foundation
> of a project his group took on two years later.
> --
>

differences in funding between bl and Xerox r&d aside, Xerox made back 
all its investment in PARC and then some, from just one invention: the 
laser printer .  Everything else they did was just gravy on top of it.

--Patrick