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Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International

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Shame...National Cash Register had so much character. Like the similarly depreciated American Telephone & Telegraph.

I'm reminded how anyone with industrial capacity during war2 was pressed into service making weapons. If you look hard enough, you can find M1 Carbines with IBM and NPR (National Post Register) head-stamps.

They made quite a few of them; the interwebs say something like 365K. I know a guy with 2 IBM manufactured M1s. Even cooler, the Rock-Ola juke box company made M1s.

Re: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to join SRI International

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Xerox received Apple stock for those meetings which they sold in the IPO. I’ve never seen anyone do a calculation of the present value of that stock but it’s probably a significant fraction of Xerox’s market cap today.

I'm pretty sure it was sold a long time ago. However, in here: https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight I calculate some of the other PARC spinoffs they did. If they'd held onto all of it, it would dwarf the value of the copier & printer business.

Thanks, interesting read. I guess the decision to sell all of those 100,00 shares at the Apple IPO was a pretty expensive blunder.
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