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(cut from "Commodore 64 - 25th Anniversary Celebration")

Bill Lowe ("father" of IBM PC) remember how Ted Nelson gave presentation to IBM directors in 1978. (before they began building first IBM micro: IBM PC).

** transcript ** Bill Lowe: "When I was trying to convince IBM that we should do micro-based machine fellow on my team by name Bob Wilson introduce me to Ted Neslon, who was son of Celeste Holm and Ted has that view of world, that I thought was remarkable, and IBM should understand. So I brought him to a meeting in Atlanta where about dozen of IBMers, all wearing ties... ...but Ted does one amazing thing, he made presentation,

...presentation was picture of him retrieving data from computers in the middle of the jungle, retrieving data from computer on the beach and his massage was where the industry was going was to a point where everyone could get any information they wanted or needed anywhere they were in the world at any time. And that's natural today, but think of that back in nineteen seventy eight; and what he was saying was you should use that as a technique for evaluating any new developments to determine how important those developments are by just judging their contribution for that overall direction."