Rush failed to mention a few things I picked up on a 2-hour documentary I saw on TV a few years back concerning the history of computers and the modern internet. XEROX-PARC = Palo Alto Research Center. A bunch of XEROX-PARC Execs were tasked by XEROX-NY (corporate) to come up with whatever they could for expanding the business. Supposedly, A year or two later (We're talking 1972 here) they reported back to XEROX corporate with basically everything you currently see in most offices now...PC, Monitor, mouse, & keyboard. XEROX corporate told them they were way out in the Ozone and there was no market for what they came up with. All that prototype equipment was and supposedly still resides in the basement of the XEROX-PARC facility. XEROX could have been the leader in the Computer business, but did not have the foresight to pull it off.
Xerox’s failure to patent all that can be considered one of the biggest business blunders of all time.
Compaq Computer spun off from Texas Instruments in Houston after TI turned down the computer five TI engineers there developed.
Hm...in the mid-80s Xerox had a mouse-based system called the Star. It was a fantastic machine for word processing. The documentary did not mention this?
Some videos from December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart at Menlo Park.
Using early mouse, graphics, links, etc.